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Point Reyes National Seashore is a 71,028-acre (287.44 km 2) park preserve located on the Point Reyes Peninsula in Marin County, California. As a national seashore , it is maintained by the US National Park Service as an important nature preserve.
Point Reyes SMR and Point Reyes SMCA are two of 22 marine protected areas adopted by the California Department of Fish and Game in August 2009, during the second phase of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. The MLPAI is a collaborative public process to create a statewide network of protected areas along California's coastline.
Point Reyes is, by official records, the windiest and foggiest on the Pacific Coast. The station is frequently blanketed by week-long periods of fog and few years pass that do not see violent gales of 75 to 100 miles per hour (121 to 161 km/h) strike the area. Point Reyes Light Station is one of the District's outstanding tourist attractions.
Point Reyes National Seashore offers some of the finest birdwatching in the United States. It is also one of the best places to watch northern elephant seals in the winter months. More than 70,000 acres (300 km 2 ) of habitat harbor an incredible variety of bird life.
Fleur Dawes, an activist with the group In Defense of Animals, walks along a fence in Point Reyes National Seashore in 2020 that the National Park Service announced Tuesday will be removed.
Tomales Point on Point Reyes Peninsula. Tomales Point is the North-Western tip of Point Reyes Peninsula. Bodega Bay is to the North, Tomales Bay is to the East, and the Pacific Ocean is to the West. The point is accessible only via a 9.5 mile hike (out and back) along Tomales Point Trail. The region is home to a tule elk population. [1]