CBS News, BY ANNE MAKOVEC, MOLLY MCCREA, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023 A controversial plan to release more than one million tons of treated radioactive water into the sea is now underway in Japan, giving scientists here in the Bay Area pause as well as those who seek escape on the open water. Near Fort Cronkhite in the Marin…
The Marin Headlands are a special place. They’re directly across the Golden Gate Bridge but feel like a wild frontier, where cell service drops to zero, coyotes mosey in the road and over the shining Pacific you can glimpse Japan (if you squint really hard). Summer is an ideal time to visit the Headlands: It’s windy but free of the bone-chilling precipitation that can blow in – sometimes at startling horizontal angles – during other seasons. But where should one begin?
Though some of these areas can get crowded on weekends, there are also plenty trails that are comparatively less traveled. Here are a few of our favorites.