Muir Woods National Monument
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- Distance
- 3.42 mi
- Elevation gain
- 36 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 33 ft
- Max elevation
- 202 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 135 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- one hour 14 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2268
- Uploaded
- May 4, 2013
- Recorded
- May 2012
near Tamalpais Valley, California (United States)
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"In 1905, US congressman William Kent and his wife Elizabeth Thacher Kent bought this difficult-to-access valley to preserve it from clearing land: hundreds of San Francisco homes were built using wood from the forests This purchase ($ 45,000 at the time) caused significant financial hardship for the couple and the park was given to the US government as a water company planned to build a dam on Redwood Creek. In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared it a "national monument," the seventh in the country's history, and in 1916 Congress established the National Park Service to administer and protect the park. road to the park Thanks to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge (1937), park attendance increased rapidly (180,000 visitors).
On July 8, 1996, an 800-year-old Sequoia leaf collapsed in the park's Cathedral Grove: it was 60 meters tall; he is always in the same place, on the ground. The park currently hosts between 700,000 and 850,000 visitors a year. "see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muir_Woods_National_Monument
On July 8, 1996, an 800-year-old Sequoia leaf collapsed in the park's Cathedral Grove: it was 60 meters tall; he is always in the same place, on the ground. The park currently hosts between 700,000 and 850,000 visitors a year. "see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muir_Woods_National_Monument
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