Those who want to observe the elephant seals can view them from the Elephant Seal Overlook near Chimney Rock above Drakes Bay or from the South Beach Overlook near the Point Reyes Lighthouse ...

Point Reyes is often at a bitter divide between environmentalism and human heritage. Now, in 2026, nearly all the ranches on ...

elk and cow to peacefully coexist at Point Reyes, such as granting 20-year agricultural lease permits to 24 beef and dairy ranches, reducing ranching, and/or prohibiting dairy ranching. The park ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson ...

Most cattle will leave, and an ambitious plan aims to restore coastal scrub, grasslands, and chaparral. But the agreement ...

Located on the Point Reyes Peninsula, 40 miles northwest of San Francisco ... and the only marine wilderness (Drakes Estero) on the West Coast south of Alaska. The park harbors an astonishingly rich ...

Elephant seals have returned to Drakes Beach at Point Reyes, where viewing areas are open from 10 AM to 4 PM for safe wildlife observation.

POINT REYES, Calif. (KGO) -- In the North Bay, a major migration is happening in Marin County. Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding ...

3—Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily ... But until recently, the blubbery beasts preferred the secluded south-facing pocket beaches of the Point Reyes Headlands.

The sound of mighty elephant seals re-staking their claim to Drake's Beach echoing in Point Reyes for winter breeding season, and you really have to see these creatures to believe them. Critically ...