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A secret jewel of the Bay Area, Point Bonita is still an active lighthouse maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard. Discover Point Bonita’s wild landscape, geology, and fascinating history.
Meet Point Bonita docents along the half-mile trail to the lighthouse. This hidden, historic setting offers breathtaking views and many stories.
Please note, the Point Bonita Bridge is closed and there is no direct access to the lighthouse at this time, though the trail still offers spectacular views of the lighthouse and the water beyond.
During the tense years from 1953 to 1979, the United States Army built and operated a total of 280 Nike missile firing batteries in the United States, emplaced as the last line of defense against Soviet bombers. Today, site SF-88 in the Marin Headlands has been turned into a museum, and is the only restored Nike missile site in the country.
Visit SF-88 and see the tools of the Cold War up close. The site is open Wednesday through Friday (plus the first Sunday of the month), 12:30 - 3:30 p.m., with guided walks beginning every half-hour.
Every second Wednesday of the month, from April through October, the Caledonia Street neighborhood in beautiful Sausalito welcomes residents and visitors to the Caledonia Street Art Walk. Businesses, galleries, and restaurants on Caledonia, Pine, and Johnson streets host Bay Area artists and are open to the public for viewing.
Each night you might see oil painting, photography, jewelry, sculpture, pottery, or watercolors, all crafted by local artists. In addition, you'll find many artists and entertainers on the street, creating their artwork before your very eyes!
Art Walk is free to participants and visitors. You can pick up a map showing each of the participating venues, or just follow the balloons and the crowds outside each location.
The Sausalito Farmers Market offers an abundance of locally grown and/or produced vegetables, fruits, organic products, gourmet cheese, herbs, seafood, meats, organic coffee, desserts, and wines, available right from the people who produce them.
This is the perfect spot to sample Marin County's agricultural bounty, grab fixings for a picnic, or stock up on groceries for your hostel stay.
The Farmers Market is held on Fridays from May to October at the Sausalito Ferry Landing.
Enjoy good music, good food, and good friends every Friday night from May 30 through August 22 at Sausalito Jazz and Blues by the Bay. Breathtaking views of Angel Island and San Francisco are the backdrop to this weekly musical celebration.
On August 1, come hear Brian Gould and Swing Fever.
Refreshments are available for purchase from local nonprofits, or bring your own picnic and soak up the Bay-side summer delights.
Enjoy good music, good food, and good friends every Friday night from May 30 through August 22 at Sausalito Jazz and Blues by the Bay. Breathtaking views of Angel Island and San Francisco are the backdrop to this weekly musical celebration.
On August 8, come hear a performance by Steffen Kuehn.
Refreshments are available for purchase from local nonprofits, or bring your own picnic and soak up the Bay-side summer delights.
Enjoy good music, good food, and good friends every Friday night from May 30 through August 22 at Sausalito Jazz and Blues by the Bay. Breathtaking views of Angel Island and San Francisco are the backdrop to this weekly musical celebration.
On August 15, come hear a performance by Jenna Aleta.
Refreshments are available for purchase from local nonprofits, or bring your own picnic and soak up the Bay-side summer delights.
Enjoy good music, good food, and good friends every Friday night from May 30 through August 22 at Sausalito Jazz and Blues by the Bay. Breathtaking views of Angel Island and San Francisco are the backdrop to this weekly musical celebration.
On August 22, the series comes to a close for the season with a performance by Eugene Huggins.
Refreshments are available for purchase from local nonprofits, or bring your own picnic and soak up the Bay-side summer delights.
Long closed to public access, Battery Townsley in the Marin Headlands has been refurbished thanks to volunteer labor and community contributions and is now ready for tours. Come explore this labyrinthine fortification, and learn about San Francisco's most extensive -- and most secret -- World War II military fortification.
From 1940 to 1948, it mounted two massive battleship guns and housed more than 100 soldiers in an extensive network of underground tunnels; during the Cold War, it was used as an underground research facility.
Battery Townsley is reached via a moderately strenuous hike up the Coastal Trail, approximately one half-mile north of the Rodeo Beach parking lot.
Join a Marin Headlands docent for an illustrated talk in the Visitor's Center about the important role lighthouses played in the growth of California in the 1800s.
Following the discovery of gold in 1848, the Bay Area experienced one of the most explosive population expansions in modern history. During the latter half of that century, the men and women of the lighthouse service -- aided by their light and fog signals -- directed hundreds of ships to safe passage through the Golden Gate and often provided lifesaving services.
A secret jewel of the Bay Area, Point Bonita is still an active lighthouse maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard. Take a half-mile walk along the trail to the lighthouse, then photograph the setting sun and rising full moon at this wild edge of the continent.
Reservations required; call (415) 331-1540.