1 Bear Valley Road Point Reyes Station, CA , 94956 Phone: (415) 464-5100 Website 10/09/21: Didn't see the machine. Ranger said it's retired.
12-03-21 - Received notice that machine was removed May 2021
Happy 100th Birthday (2016), US National Park Service!!
Point Reyes National Seashore is a 71,028-acre park preserve located on the Point Reyes Peninsula in Marin County. As a national seashore, it is maintained by the US National Park Service as an important nature preserve. Some existing agricultural uses are allowed to continue within the park. All of the park's beaches were listed as the cleanest in the state in 2010.
From its thunderous ocean breakers crashing against rocky headlands and expansive sand beaches to its open grasslands, bushy hillsides, and forested ridges, Point Reyes offers visitors over 1500 species of plants and animals to discover.
The Point Reyes Lighthouse is located at the western-most end of the Point Reyes Headlands and Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard is windy and slow-going, so allow forty-five minutes to drive the ~20 miles from the Bear Valley/Olema/Point Reyes Station area to the lighthouse parking lot (one hour and thirty minutes round-trip), not including any time you will spend in the vicinity of the lighthouse.
The Lighthouse (with over 300 steps leading down to it and back up!!) has a small Lighthouse Visitor Center at the top of the stairs. The Lighthouse and Lighthouse Visitor's Center only open Fridays through Mondays from 10 am to 4:30 pm. The stairs leading down to the Lighthouse, the exhibits in the lower Lighthouse chamber, and the Equipment Building are only open as weather permits.
The Bear Valley Visitor Center (Located 0.5 mile west of Olema, CA, along Bear Valley Road.) Hours are:
March 1 through October 31: Weekdays from 10 am to 5 pm, Weekends and holidays from 9 am to 5 pm.
Winter Hours from November 1 through February 28: Weekdays from 10 am to 4:30 pm, Weekends and holidays from 9 am to 4:30 pm.
. Designs were:
1) Lighthouse
2) Elephant Seal
3) Tule Elk
4) Gray Whale.
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