Muir Woods National Monument is a remnant of ancient coast redwood forests that blanketed many northern California coastal valleys before the 1800s. The area was named in honor of conservationist John Muir. The 560 acre park has six miles of trails.
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| Shade loving undergrowth thrives under a redwood canopy including sword ferns, mosses and redwood sorrel. |
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| Listen to the sounds of Muir Woods including the sound of a falling tree captured by Dan Dugan https://soundcloud.com/tags/muir%20woods |
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| Hiking the Hillside Trail |
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| Old growth coast redwoods are the tallest living things in the world |
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| The perfect setting for the Tree Pose |
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| Trails in Muir Woods are boardwalked or asphalted for accessibility |
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| With Muir Beach only 3 miles away from Muir Woods we had to come check it out after it's 5 month revamp |
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It has been said that trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment rooted in the ground. But they never seem so to me. I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! - John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, (1938)
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