When Paul and I were first in San Francisco years ago we made the trek across the Bay to hike in Muir woods. We have wonderfully happy memories of that. A few years later when I was hear with a colleague we attempted a similar visit but were thwarted by a land slide. On Paul's birthday trip in California we were determined to make it happen.
The park website warned that parking was a nightmare and people were known to take to parking on the side of the road next to the creek only to experience the horror of their car tumbling into the creek and harming the natural ecosystem (although to be honest the ecosystem would be way down on my list of concerns if my rental were to tumble into a gorge). In order to deal with the onslaught of visitors a shuttle bus has been put in place.
TAKE THE SHUTTLE!!!
We decided to drive and hoped we might find a spot on a Monday morning. HA HA HA HA
I dropped the gang off and ended up parked about two miles away on the side of the road (happily in an area with a huge, wide shoulder).
Here are some pics from that visit 6 years ago.
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