 McClure's Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, looking south on an overcast winter's afternoon Point Reyes National Seashore is 70,000 acre (283 km²) park preserve located on the Point Reyes Peninsula in Marin county, California, USA. As a national seashore, it is maintained by the US National Park Service as a nationally important nature preserve. Clem Miller, a US Congressman from Marin County wrote and introduced the bill for the establishment of Point Reyes National Seashore in 1962. McClures Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California. ...
McClures Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California. ...
Point Reyes Point Reyes is a prominent cape on the Pacific coast of northern California in the United States. ...
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A National seashore, in the United States, is a seashore area federally designated as being of natural and recreational signifance as a preserved area. ...
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Description
 Point Reyes National Seashore The peninsula is a well defined area, separated from the rest of Marin County by a rift zone of the San Andreas Fault, about half of which is sunk below sea level and forms Tomales Bay. The small town of Point Reyes Station forms the gateway to the peninsula and provides most services to it, though some services are also available at Inverness on the west shore of Tomales Bay. Point Reyes National Seashore © 2004 Matthew Trump File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Point Reyes National Seashore © 2004 Matthew Trump File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
View of the San Andreas Fault on the Carrizo Plain in central California The San Andreas Fault is a geological fault, known as a right-lateral strike-slip fault, that spans a length of roughly 800 miles (1287 kilometers) through California. ...
Tomales Bay Tomales Bay is a long narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean in Marin County in northern California in the United States. ...
Point Reyes Station is a census-designated place located in Marin County, California. ...
Inverness is a census-designated place located in Marin County, California. ...
The preserve includes wild coastal beaches and headlands, estuaries, and uplands, with a coastline that bears a striking resemblance to Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Although parts of the peninsula are commercially farmed, and parts are under the jurisdiction of other conservation authorities, the National Park Service provides signage and seeks to manage visitor impact on the entire peninsula. View to the south over Cape Point; the lighthouses white dome is just visible Cape Point in South Africa is higher (disputed — see talk page) than the Cape of Good Hope and about 1 km to its east. ...
1888 Map of the Cape of Good Hope The Cape of Good Hope is a headland in South Africa, near Cape Town, traditionally— and incorrectly — regarded as marking the turning point between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean (Technically, the division between the two oceans lies further south-east...
The northernmost part of the peninsula is maintained as a reserve for tule elk, which are readily seen there. The preserve is also very rich in raptors and shorebirds. Elk may mean: Quarter-ton/tonne and larger deer: Elk in its European sense, i. ...
Orders Accipitriformes Cathartidae Pandionidae Accipitridae Sagittariidae Falconiformes Falconidae A bird of prey or raptor is a bird that hunts its food, especially one that preys on mammals or other birds. ...
Families Charadridae Jacanidae Rostratulidae Ibidorhynchidae Recurvirostridae Haematopodidae Scolopacidae Dromadidae Burhinidae Glareolidae Thinocoridae Waders, called Shorebirds in North America (where wader is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. ...
The Point Reyes Lighthouse attracts whale-watchers looking for the Gray Whale migrating south in mid-January and north in mid-March. Whale watching off the coast of Bar Harbor, Maine. ...
Binomial name Eschrichtius robustus Lilljeborg, 1861 Grey Whale range The Grey Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) is a whale which travels between feeding and breeding grounds yearly. ...
The Point Reyes National Seashore attracts 2.5 million visitors annually.
Hiking Bear Valley Trail is the most popular hike in the park. Taking off from the visitor's center, it travels mostly streamside through a shaded, fern-laden canyon, breaking out at Divide Meadow before heading gently downward to the coast, where it emerges at the spectacular ocean view at Arch Rock. Three trails connecting from the west with the Bear Valley trail head upward toward Mt. Wittenberg, at 1407 feet, the highest point in the park. At the western end of the Point Reyes Peninsula is the historic Point Reyes Lighthouse, reached by 308 steps. Nearby is the short Chimney Rock hike, which is noted for its spring wildflower displays. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1618x1184, 350 KB)Point Reyes Lighthouse Taken 4/19/03 by User:Pretzelpaws with a Casio QV-3000EX camera. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1618x1184, 350 KB)Point Reyes Lighthouse Taken 4/19/03 by User:Pretzelpaws with a Casio QV-3000EX camera. ...
The Peggys Point lighthouse in Nova Scotia, Canada An aid for navigation and pilotage at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. ...
As befitting a national seashore, Point Reyes offers several beach walks. Limantour Spit winds up on a narrow sandy beach, from which Drakes Beach can be glimpsed across Drakes Bay. North Beach and South Beach are often windswept and wave-pounded. Ocean vistas from higher ground can be seen from the Tomales Point Trail and, to the south, from the Palomarin trailhead at the park's southern entrance outside the town of Bolinas.
For backpackers, Point Reyes has four hike-in campgrounds available by reservation.
Flora In his book The Natural History of the Point Reyes Peninsula, Jules Evens identifies several plant communities. One of the most prominent is the Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forest, which covers most of the Bear Valley trail and the Inverness Ridge through which it passes. Species See text. ...
The Bishop pine (Pinus muricata) forest is found on slopes in the northern half of the park. Many of these trees growing in thick swaths came from seeds released after the 1995 Mt. Vision fire. Binomial name Pinus muricata The Bishop Pine (Pinus muricata) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California, USA, including some offshore islands, and a few locations in Baja California, Mexico, and always on or near the coast, from Trinidad Head in Humboldt County, California south to San Vicente...
The other communities identified by Evens are the coastal strand, dominated by European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria), ice plant, sea rocket (Cakile maritima) and other species that thrive on the immediate coast; northern coastal prairie, found on a narrow strip just inland from the coastal strand that includes some native grasses; coastal rangeland, the area still grazed by the cattle from the peninsula's remaining working ranches; northern coastal scrub, dominated by coyote bush (Baccharis pilularis); marshlands--salt, brackish, and freshwater--and the intertidal and subtidal plant communities. Species Ammophila arenaria Ammophila breviligulata Marram Grass or Beach Grass is a genus of two species of grass growing almost exclusively on coastal sand dunes, where rhizomes on its extensive root system allow it to survive in a very harsh and windswept ecosystem. ...
Binomial name Carpobrotus edulis (L.) L. Bolus The Ice Plant Carpobrotus edulis is a member of the Stone Plant family Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus. ...
Species (incomplete list) Cakile arabica Cakile constricta Cakile edentula Cakile geniculata Cakile lanceolata Cakile maritima Cakile is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. ...
California coastal prairie, also known as northern coastal grassland, is a grassland plant community of California and Oregon. ...
Northern coastal scrub is a scrubland plant community of California and Oregon. ...
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