Muir Woods National Monument is restoring recreational access and some visitor services

News Release Date: June 26, 2020

Contact: GOGA Public Affairs, 415-561-4732

MILL VALLEY, CA—Following advice from the White Property, Centers for Ailment Handle and Avoidance (CDC), and point out and neighborhood public well being authorities, Muir Woods Countrywide Monument is restoring leisure access and some customer services. The Countrywide Park Service (NPS) is doing the job servicewide with federal, condition, and area community wellness authorities to intently keep an eye on the COVID-19 pandemic and applying a phased approach to improve accessibility on a park-by-park basis.
  
Beginning Monday, June 29, 2020, Muir Woods will be open up from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. everyday. Parking calls for an highly developed reservation. Park entrance fee collection, as very well as limited food and gift services, will be open up. 

“Muir Woods is a distinctive put, contrary to any other within just the San Francisco Bay Area. We are delighted to welcome website visitors back again to be inspired by this aged-advancement coastline redwood forest and love this superb device of the Countrywide Park Program,” claimed Superintendent Laura E. Joss. “We have worked difficult to guarantee the basic safety of our employees and visitors, even though preserving the one of a kind visitor working experience that only a primeval landscape like Muir Woods can give.”  
   
Visitors must make parking reservations through GoMuirWoods.com ahead of their take a look at and are strongly encouraged to prepay their entrance fee by this web-site. The park entrance fee is $15 for adults and the standard vehicle reservation charge is $8.50. 
 
The overall health and safety of our website visitors, workers, volunteers, and partners proceeds to be paramount. Our operational solution will be to take a look at each individual facility operate and assistance furnished to be certain those people operations comply with existing public health assistance, and will be routinely monitored. We continue on to get the job done intently with the NPS Workplace of Community Well being working with CDC direction to guarantee general public and workspaces are harmless and clear for people, staff, companions, and volunteers.  

With community health and fitness in mind, we request our readers to adhere to CDC advice, program their visit in progress and come geared up to make sure their basic safety and the basic safety of park personnel. If touring within just the six Bay Area counties, it is proposed that you have and put on a face masking when you can not preserve 6’ of distance.  
   
Website visitors will experience some new safety precautions: 
  

• To minimize crowding and team accumulating, no park ranger tours or talks will be available. The Muir Woods staff members will focus on greeting and orienting visitors. 

• The Muir Woods path technique is perfect for safe distancing. The park is instituting a a person-way route of vacation on some trails to lower close contact. Indicators will guide visitors with basic safety guidelines on approaches to socially distance. 

• The parking reservation capacity has been reduced by about 50% to enable for amplified social distancing. As a consequence, people will have a quiet and uncrowded working experience checking out the forest. 

• All buses and RVs more compact than 30 feet will be managed in the current parking reservation system. 

• There will be no Muir Woods shuttle – it has been suspended to lower customer publicity in confined spaces. We are doing work carefully with Marin Transit on other alternatives to provide transportation assistance for guests touring without having cars. 

• Restrooms will stay open for site visitors to use for the duration of their time at Muir Woods. 

 
While these areas are available for visitors to love, a return to whole operations will carry on to be phased and companies might be restricted. When recreating, the general public ought to stick to neighborhood space wellness orders, practice Leave No Trace concepts, prevent crowding and prevent significant-risk outside things to do.  
 
The CDC has available steering to assistance individuals recreating in parks and open up areas protect against the distribute of infectious diseases. We will go on to observe all park capabilities to be certain that people adhere to CDC steerage for mitigating pitfalls affiliated with the transmission of COVID-19, and acquire any supplemental measures important to secure general public health and fitness.    

Aspects and updates on park functions will continue on to be posted on our web page www.nps.gov/muwo and social media channels. Updates about NPS operations will be posted on www.nps.gov/coronavirus.
 
Trails and open up spaces at Golden Gate Countrywide Recreation Area continue to remain open and available to the community.  
 
For more data about the position of other sites at Golden Gate Nationwide Recreation Place, please visit https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/temporary-amenities-closure-advisory.htm.