Mount Tamalpais State Park
SF Bay Area
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 6243
- Established
- 1928
parks detail
- Hook
- The Bay Area's sleeping-lady summit, the Mountain Play amphitheater, and the birthplace of mountain biking
- More
- The 'Crookedest Railroad in the World' once climbed 281 turns to the summit tavern; its Gravity Car grade is now the classic hike. The Mountain Play has run in the stone amphitheater since 1913, and repack-era riders invented the mountain bike on these fire roads in the 1970s.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.906, -122.596