hiking mt. tam & muir woods

Marin is known for its parks and hiking opportunities and no hotel is better located for this than us. Hiking trails into Muir Woods and Mt. Tamalpais are right outside our hotel, including:

• Mountain Home Inn to Muir Woods
• Mountain Home Inn to West Point Inn
• Mountain Home Inn to Tourist Club
• Mountain Home Inn to Van Wyck Meadow
• Mountain Home Inn Hike or Bike Ride to Top of Mt. Tam/East Peak (via Old Railroad Grade)
• Mountain Home Inn to Mountain Play Theatre

Adopt-a-Trail

The Mountain Home Inn has adopted four hiking trails.

We are a product of our natural environment and our work to conserve it reflects our team’s values. We will stay committed to engaging with our surroundings with gratitude and care!

If you have visited our sanctuary on the mountain, you know we take nature seriously. From the redwood columns that provide a foundation for the inn’s character, to the special steps we take to stay dedicated to the Water Conservation Program. Guests come and go, enjoying their days outdoors full of hiking, swimming, and bird watching.

Out of respect for everything Mt. Tamalpais continues to offer, it was an easy decision to extend our efforts and adopt four trails near the inn. These are the Trestle Trail, the Gravity Car Trail, the Panoramic to Canopy Trail, and Camp Eastwood Trail to Troop 80 Trail. If these trails are new to you, please ask our staff for a map and go explore!

We remain proud to adopt these trails, as this way we can help keep litter under control. It is an honor to do our part to keep the trails pristine and avoid the ripple effects (including for animals, ocean and sea life) of littering in the natural world we love.

A Mt. Tam trail is home. We’re proud to keep contributing as we take care of our environment. And we look forward to sharing the mountain with you,

Your friends at the Mountain Home Inn

Mountain Safety

Mt. Tamalpais is vast and the terrain can be steep and challenging. For safety’s sake, please stay on the marked and maintained trails and avoid the rough, unmarked trails made by animals and human wandering.

Just makin up poems in my head as I climb toward Mount Tamalpais.
See up there, as beautiful a mountain as you’ll see anywhere in the world,
a beautiful shape to it, I really love Tamalpais.

– The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac