This hike explores the southern tip of Point Reyes National Seashore from Agate Beach Park to the Palomarin trailhead. It's a long, rewarding walk along a shoreline featuring sand and pebble beaches, beige cliffs, tide pools, rocky reefs, stream outlets and shorebirds. Watch out for rockfalls below the cliffs. Check the tides as some spots may be impassable at high water. You can either return along the shoreline or via a patchwork of trails along the blufftops, reachable at several spots along the route.
open accessno dogsyear-roundany vehicle
Park in the lot for Agate Beach Park. Restrooms are provided. The hike begins by walking down the main walkway to the shoreline.
Agate Beach Park welcomes dogs, but most of the route falls within Point Reyes National Seashore where dogs are prohibited.