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Marin County - Your Escape to Nature

Nature favored Marin County with nature’s best as it is found in the northwestern part of California and had been topographically formed as a peninsula that faces southward to look over the majestic Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay. Marin County’s other neighbors are Sonoma and Napa Counties to its north, the Pacific Ocean and its beaches to its west, and the San Pablo Bay to its east. Nature did in fact favor Marin County with nature’s best.

Because Marin County is sandwiched between two prominent bodies of water and as a result of its winter’s rains, it has been proven time and time again to have warmer winters than its immediate neighbors. For just those exact reasons, Marin County was equally blessed with cooler summers which never trigger heat waves, especially near its beaches.

The latest census of the United States Census Bureau estimates Marin County’s total area at 828 square miles; 520 square miles of which are dry lands and the remaining 308 square miles are water. Mother-Nature bless Marin County with breathtaking landscapes of fertile green pasturelands, tidal flats at its shores and the majestic Mount Tamalpais which is Marin County’s tallest mountain reaching 2,600 feet up to its crystal blue skies.

Nature favored Marin County with its best panoramic views of luxuriant emerald-green farmlands, vivid tidal flats and Mount Tamalpais presiding over the entire spectrum from its height of 2,600 feet.

Just as the very volatile and unpredictable San Andreas earthquake fault is constantly threatening Marin County’s stability, it has over the course of hundreds of decades shaped the County into the assortment of rolling hills, flat land masses, high mountains and ocean front boulders that it displays today. In addition, the never ending activities of the San Andreas earthquake fault have through the ages deposited a wide variety of soils each of which is fertile and enriched with nutrients.

To repay Mother-Nature for blessing Marin County so openhandedly, many refuges and preserves have been established to project the wares of Mother-Nature.

- Marin Island National Wildlife Refuge is one such protected area in Marin County and it is comprised of two islands rising in the San Marino Bay, the East Marin and the West Marin. This refuge is surrounded by tidelands and supports, protects and provides nesting grounds for the largest heron and egret population in the San Francisco Bay area. Many other birds who permanently reside in the refuge as well as migrating species are found there and among them are surf scoters, black oystercatchers, diving ducks and ospreys.

- Well over 1,000 genus of plants and animals are protected in the magnificent surroundings of Point Reyes National Seashore which is set amidst the Pacific Ocean, rocky beaches, sprawling grasslands, gently sloping hills and thickly wooded forests.

- Muir Woods National Monument is a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), one of the largest urban national parks in the world. GGNRA was established in 1972 and contains 75,398 acres extend from Tomales Bay in Marin County to San Mateo County in the south, encompassing 59 miles of shoreline - one of the nation’s largest coastal preserves.

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