by CoastView | Dec 28, 2023 | 2023, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks
The Marine Exchange Lookout Station is on Fort Miley at Lands End in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, about 6 miles (10 km) west of downtown San Francisco and 2.7 miles (4.4 km) southwest of the Presidio at the Golden Gate, California. After gold was...
by CoastView | Dec 10, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, California, Coastal Features, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Wilder Ranch is a California State Park bordered by the Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve, located about 59 miles (95 km) south-southeast of San Francisco and 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Santa Cruz, California. The ranch was formerly a dairy farm named for Delos D....
by CoastView | Nov 23, 2023 | 2023, California, Communities, Embayments
Marshall is on the northeast shore of Tomales Bay, about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Bodega Bay and 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Tomales, California. The town is named after the Marshall brothers who established a dairying industry in the 1850s. Starting in the 1870s,...
by CoastView | Nov 11, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History
Dillon Beach is a community situated along Dillon Creek that starts at an elevation of 430 feet (131 m) and flows generally west for 1.3 miles (2 km) to Bodega Bay near the mouth of Tomales Bay, about 43 miles (69 km) north-northwest of San Francisco and 7 miles (11...
by CoastView | Nov 4, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Limekiln State Park is 716 acres (290 ha) on the Big Sur coast at Rockland Landing, about 31 miles (50 km) northwest of San Simeon and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Lucia, California. The park was established in 1994 and includes the ruins of four historic limekilns,...
by CoastView | Oct 20, 2023 | 2023, Beaches, Biodiversity, California, Canneries, Communities, Historical, Natural History, Rivers
Klamath River flows for 257 miles (415 km) from a broad patchwork of lakes and marshes at the edge of the Oregon high desert, through the Cascade Range and the Klamath Mountains, and enters the Pacific Ocean at the community of Requa, about 52 miles (84 km) north of...
