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Mount Tamalpais State Park

801 Panoramic Hwy, Mill Valley, California 94941 USA

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Mount Tamalpais State Park is a California state park, located in Marin County, California. The primary feature of the park is the 2571 ft Mount Tamalpais. The park contains mostly redwood and oak forests. The mountain itself covers around 25000 acre. There are about 60 mi of hiking trails, which are connected to a larger, 200 mi network of trails in neighboring public lands.

"Before leaving town, Sal fulfils his own promise to climb ‘that mountain’. On a beautiful day, surrounded by California cottonwood trees, he looks over the Pacific, back to the city where he imagines ‘beautiful women standing in white doorways’, then east towards the ‘great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent’. That mountain, north of the city, is Mount Tamalpais. Find your own Sal Paradise moment on Mount Tamalpais State Park’s 50 miles of hiking and biking trails, which include a half-mile trip up East Peak. Perhaps at the top, ‘at the end of America’, you’ll find, like Sal, that there’s ‘nowhere to go but back’." -http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20120913-jack-kerouacs-us-road-trip/5

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Reviewed by
Tatiana Danger

  • Road Warrior
  • 1,169 Reviews
  • 910 Helpful
August 31, 2014
Rated 3.0

This is where Sal ends his road trip in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Visited here a year ago, and beware there are definitely snakes on the trails. But, they're relatively harmless. The view is absolutely breathtaking. Remember to take water.

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Mount Tamalpais State Park

801 Panoramic Hwy
Mill Valley, California
94941 USA
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