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Welcome to Olema Valley
Parks

Olema Valley

Marin County
You're in another world here, a picture-perfect rural valley bordering both the Golden Gate National Parks and Point Reyes National Seashore. This pastoral landscape stretches for nine miles, its ribbon of Highway 1 unspooling between the slopes of Bolinas and Inverness Ridge. Here you have an opportunity to experience two...
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Crissy Field Center

Crissy Field Center

Engaging communities who traditionally have had little-to-no access to national parks, the Center offers multicultural urban environmental education for youth.
Community

Art in the Parks

The program mission of Arts in the Parks is provide programs to connect our visitors with creative experiences in the park that are transformative, unexpected, and inspirational.
Video screenshot showing a landscape painting overlayed with the series title, "100 Years of Arts in the Parks"
Community

100 Years of Arts in the Parks

“100 Years of Arts in the Parks” celebrates how artists inspired the creation of the national parks and are helping to re-imagine the parks today.
Hawk Hill
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory

GSM Tracking

This device utilizes GPS technology that is similar to a hand-held or car GPS unit, and uses cell phone networks to e-mail us the hawk’s locations.
Volunteerstransplant native plants at the Fort Funston nursery
Conservation

Fort Funston Nursery

When: Saturdays, 9:30 am–12:30 pm; Where: Fort Funston Nursery – Learn to grow and care for native plants from seed, while helping to preserve and restore your national park.
A group inside the shadehouse at the Marin Headlands Nursery
Conservation

Marin Headlands Nursery

When: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 10 am–2 pm, Wednesdays, 1–4 pm, and Saturdays, 9 am–Noon; Where: Marin Headlands Nursery – Learn to grow and care for native plants from seed, while helping to preserve and restore your national park.
Students check on plants at the Oceana High School Nursery
Conservation

Oceana High School Nursery

You’ll get to do hands-on restoration at three park sites: the Oceana Native Plant Nursery, Milagra Ridge, and Mori Point. Restoration activities include planting, transplanting, pot washing, removing invasive plants, and much more.
Volunteers transplant toyon at the Presidio Nursery
Conservation

Presidio Nursery

When: Wednesdays & Saturdays, 1–4 pm; Where: Presidio Nursery – Learn to grow and care for native plants from seed, while helping to preserve and restore your national park.
Two hawkwatchers scan the west quadrant
Golden Gate Raptor Observatory

Hawkwatch

During the autumn months, our teams of volunteer hawk counters identify and tally 19 species of birds of prey, working under the leadership of an experienced dayleader.