Marin County - Your Escape to Nature
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So, has Mother-Nature really blessed Marin County? Yes, of course Mother-Nature blessed Marin County. Marin County is a south-facing peninsula in Northern California that is framed in on the north by Sonoma and Napa wine country, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and its rocky beaches, on the south by the stately Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay and on the east by the San Pablo Bay which is often shrouded in fog. If that is not considered being blessed by Mother-Nature, what is?
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.
Topographically, Marin County displays a remarkable landscape of lush and sprawling pasturelands, tidal flats along its coastline and the towering Mount Tamalpais, the county’s tallest mountain reaching a height of 2,600 feet.
Marin County has also been blessed (or cursed) by the ever threatening infamous San Andreas earthquake fault that runs right through it and is in an unyielding effort ripping the Tomales Peninsula away from its mainland bit by endless bit.
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.
As a way of thanking nature for its favors, Marin County has created sanctuaries to protect and preserve that which is vulnerable in nature.
- It has been estimated that more than 1,000 species of plants and animals are saved from harm and extinction at Point Reyes National Seashore which is nested between the rocky shores of the Pacific Ocean, the lush grassy flatlands, the rolling hills and the tree-rich forests.
- Point Reyes National Seashore is a preserve to over 1,000 species of plants and animals in a breathtaking setting of crashing ocean waves against rugged headlands and gentle beaches, wide open grasslands, rolling hills and wooded crests.
- The Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) was established in 1972 and with its 75,398 acres spanning over a couple of counties is one of the world’s largest national parks located within an urban setting as well as one of the largest coastal preserves in the United States. The GGNRA includes 59 miles of beaches and the awe inspiring Muir Woods National Monument of Marin County.
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