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Visiting the Muir Woods

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More on our roadtrip around Northern California with our Sacramento-area based friends earlier this month. Went part of a day at the Muir Woods National Monument.

According to Wikipedia:

“Muir Woods National Monument is a United States national monument managed by the National Park Service and named after naturalist John Muir. It is located on Mount Tamalpais near the Pacific coast in southwestern Marin County, California. The Monument is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and is 12 miles (19 km) north of San Francisco. It protects 554 acres (224 ha),[4] of which 240 acres (97 ha) are old-growth coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests,[5] one of the few such stands remaining in the San Francisco Bay Area.“

John Muir (1838–1914) was a Scottish-Born American naturalist, author, and early advocate for the preservation of the U.S. wilderness. Known as the “Father of the National Parks,” his writings inspired the creation of the National Park System and he co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892.

(Source: Google AI)

Fortunately we began our trek through the Muir Woods at 9:00 am before the crowds arrived (by 11 am it was very crowded).


Wow these trees are old! Here is a tree cross section exhibit they had along the path of a tree that was a 1000+ years old:

We came upon an area called “Cathedral Grove” and I appreciated the signage as well as information I learned in the cafe later about this section of the Muir Woods:

Of course I couldn’t control myself, I had to let my inner “Ansel Adams” run free and snap a couple B&W photos while wandering the woods:

I took more but I won’t embarrass myself further by sharing more – ha!

We were able to get a stamp on and sticker for our National Parks Passport that we are obsessed with. It’s been fun to get the rubber stamp mark that we were there and the sticker for the national park or monument whenever we are visiting one!

Below is an example of the little passport book and the inside pages to mark that you visited a park:

Postscript

While road tripping in Northern California, I brought my English Paper Piecing (EPP) project to work on – I worked on sewing the individual hexagons together for some of my EPP rosettes (see post ScrapHappy May 2026 – Moving Along on the EPP Quilt).

But disaster stuck and I lost one of the rosettes I was working on somewhere in my travels!!!

So now I only have 98 instead of the 99 I made for this quilt 😦

So before I can finish the quilt I had to make another rosette from scratch (pout, pout, pout)!

I’ve decided not to travel with them again, I will bring a knit or crochet project instead.

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28 thoughts on “Visiting the Muir Woods”

  9. Enjoyed this walk through the Muir Woods with you! It looks so grand, all those tall trees and the lush greenery everywhere. Love that there was a cross section exhibit. Some of those tree trunks that have grown for so long are massive. So fantastic to have discovered your blog through Yvette – and you do a great deal of quilting! It was lovely you made another rosette after losing one! How nice you also quilt while on travels. I like to crochet little toys when I have time 😊

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  11. Hi Tierney. I think I read this on my phone, but I’m just now getting to reply from my laptop. I can almost smell those redwoods, one of the Californias magnificent treasures. I’m happy that you two could explore them together.

    I’m glad you were able to recover from the lost rosette. That must have given you pause. I can’t wait to see the assembled quilt.

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