Overview
Marin County is in Northern California, across the Golden Gate Strait from San Francisco. The sprawling Marin Headlands has Golden Gate Bridge views, trails, and the 1855 Point Bonita Lighthouse.
Description
North is the giant redwood trees of Muir Woods National Monument. Mount Tamalpais State Park’s namesake peak has panoramic views. The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Marin County Civic Center is in county seat San Rafael.
Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, Marin County is a collection of wealthy, wooded hamlets that tenuously hang by Haute hippie roots as a more conservative tech-era population moves in. The ‘common’ folk here eat organic, vote Democrat and drive Teslas. Tons of old rock n' rollers, from members of the Grateful Dead to Metallica, reside in the hills and are a testament to the county's wilder days of yore.
California City, California
United States
URL:
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/california/marin-county