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A sign marks the boundary of Mt. Tamalpais State Park, and you are now on land owned by the Tourist Club.

Tourist Club

The Tourist Club is part of an international conservation organization, founded in 1895 in Vienna, which has approximately 600,000 members in the U.S. and Europe. Immigrants from Germany and Austria founded the club’s Bay Area branch in the early 1900s and bought several acres of land next to Muir Woods. The club’s collection of colorful Bavarian-style buildings, set amid a Pacific-coastal forest, with a bandstand, a dance floor, and a few palm trees thrown in for good measure, is remarkable. The club is open on weekends year-round, and during the week if the caretaker is available. Hikers are welcome.

The Redwood Trail skirts the upper edge of the club’s grounds and joins a dirt access road just past a small shed. Bearing left, you meet the Sun Trail after several hundred feet. Here you turn right and wander through open terrain with great views of the often fog-shrouded ridges and ravines sloping down toward the Pacific Ocean.