Tennessee Cove
Marin Headlands · Tennessee Valley Trail
Contours, elevations and trails from OpenTopoMap. Scroll down for the zoomable map.
Tennessee Valley cuts down through the Marin Headlands to Tennessee Cove, a small pocket beach framed by coastal bluffs and a dramatic sea arch. The easy valley trail — wildflowers, a lagoon, and ocean at the end — is one of the most popular walks just north of the Golden Gate. We've walked it as a family more than once over the years, going all the way back to when the kids were little.
The point was named in 1603 by Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno, who sailed past on the Feast of the Three Kings — Punta de los Reyes, "Point of the Kings."
(The route drawn is the mapped Tennessee Valley Trail centerline from the trailhead down to Tennessee Cove, not a recorded GPS track.)
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