Site of the Lighter Wharf at Bolinas

Nothing marks the site and nothing of the wharf remains, and the trade it served undid it. Lumber from the sawmills at Dogtown went onto lighters here and floated down the lagoon to schooners in deeper water, bound for Gold Rush San Francisco, moving only on the high tide. The logging, and the cattle that followed it, washed silt into the lagoon, and the wharves at its upper end were out of use within a few years. By 1880 a county historian found that not even the stroke of an axe was heard.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Muir Woods National Monument — 7.4 mi
  A redwood canyon saved from a reservoir by a gift, and named for a man who had been there once.
• Muir Beach Overlook — 7.8 mi
  A cliff edge on Highway 1, and the concrete dugouts where two-man crews watched the sea after Pearl Harbor.
• Earthquake Trail — 9.2 mi
  A short loop along the San Andreas, where a broken fence shows how far Point Reyes moved in under a minute in 1906.
• Kule Loklo — 9.6 mi
  A Coast Miwok village built in the 1970s to honour a people its builders were told had died out. They had not.

More markers nearby

• Lime Kilns — 4.7 mi
• Pioneer Paper Mill — 7.0 mi
• Home of Lord Charles Snowden Fairfax — 7.1 mi
• First Sawmill in Marin County — 8.1 mi