About This Site
Muir Woods Hike is an independent informational guide to hiking Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, north of San Francisco, and to the six guided tours GetYourGuide sells that include the forest. It answers the practical questions a visit raises: which trail fits the time available, who needs a reservation, how to get there and back, and how the six tours differ.
What the site covers
Muir Woods has two kinds of walking. The valley floor along Redwood Creek is flat and partly boardwalk; the Main Trail loop covers it in 30 minutes to about 1.5 hours. The climbing trails leave the canyon for Mount Tamalpais State Park, and the trails page lists each one with distance, gain and time. The complete guide brings the forest, the trails and the reservation system together on one page.
The six tours handle the transport and, in five cases, the entrance fee, and give 60 to 90 minutes in the forest. Each has a close-up page, listed on the six tours, close up, and all six tours sets them side by side.
What this site is, and is not
It is an independent guide in English, with machine translations into French, German, Spanish and Italian. It is not the National Park Service, not the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, not the reservation service at gomuirwoods.com and not a tour operator. It sells nothing itself, and it cannot book parking or shuttle seats. Hours, rules and trail figures are printed as the National Park Service publishes them, and the official pages are the ones to check before travelling: nps.gov for the monument and gomuirwoods.com for reservations.
Numbers
The site prints durations, distances, elevation gain and dates from the six listings and from published sources. It prints no prices, no fee amounts and no figures from traveller feedback. The live booking widget on each page carries the current tour price, and the current entrance fee is on nps.gov, as the entrance fee page explains.
How the site is paid for
Booking links go to GetYourGuide and are affiliate links. A booking made through one may earn this site a small commission, and the traveller pays the same as when booking direct. The affiliate disclosure sets out the details. Corrections can be sent through the contact page.