Two girls looking for crabs, with Sausalito in the background.

2600 ft. Mt. Tamalpais is a State Park, with 6300 acres of redwood groves and oak woodlands...and 200 miles of biking/hiking trails. Mountain Biking was invented on these trails in the 1970s.

In 1873, Dr. John Cushing dammed the creek to create a swimming hole for guests at his Health Resort in Blithedale Canyon.

John Thomas Reed built the lumber mill in 1834. He needed a circular saw, so he traded with the Russians at Ft. Ross, giving them 300 elk skins, 20 bear skins, and 200 cattle hides.

Behind the grasses in Hauke Park, a waterway leads to Richardson's Bay and on to San Francisco Bay.

Dipsea race is 100 years old. These runners have raced 7 miles from Mill Valley and now see the end ahead at Stinson Beach.

The bridge looks elegant, but the real beauty, constantly changing, is the ebb and flow of the tides in the wetlands.

In 1902, the spirited ladies of the Outdoor Art Club staged a protest to preserve this Redwood grove. Development stopped. Blithedale Park was created for the next generations.

Only a 10 minute drive from Mill Valley, Muir Woods is a National Monument where fallen trees and branches are for the most part untouched.

Also known as The Great Beach, this beautiful expanse of 10 miles of undeveloped ocean beach is 25 miles north of Mill Valley (as the crow flies).