Seven Grey Foxes is located in a quiet rural area of fields and wooded hills. Coastal West Marin is one of the unspoiled areas of North America. If you look west from Seven Grey Foxes you will see the Point Reyes National Seashore and the low mountains of the Inverness Ridge which beyond slope down to the Pacific. A half mile to the east you will see a line of large rolling hills, green in winter, amber in summer.

In the town of Point Reyes Station you will find good restaurants, unusual shops, and three art galleries. The Bovine Bakery makes its own coffeecake every morning and is a pleasant walk down the winding country road from Seven Grey Foxes to town. There are two good breakfast places, The Pine Cone and The Station House Café and both serve lunch also. The Station House and Stellina serve dinner.

The local Dance Palace has outstanding programs; a classic chorus performs here in the summer; kayaking and horseback riding are available; deep sea fishing is just up the road a ways at Bodega Bay.

Seven Grey Foxes has three lodging units: two private room and bath suites; and a two-room apartment with a Franklin fireplace and corner kitchen. The main part of the house was designed by Campbell and Wong who are listed by New York City’s MOMA as Distinguished American Architects. Science fiction writer Philip K Dick wrote his most famous novels in this house in the early nineteen sixties. Many of the hundreds of visitors who have stayed at Seven Grey Foxes return year after year.

About the Surrounding Area

There are more than a hundred miles of beaches in West Marin as well as the Point Reyes Lighthouse, Tomales Bay State Park, two oyster farms, and miles of hiking and equestrian trails. Heart's Desire Beach on Tomales Bay is more suitable for small children than the ocean beaches and the water is a little warmer (or perhaps one should say, less cold). Inverness is a small residential town on the other side of Tomales Bay with two pleasant restaurants and a gift store. There are interesting shops in Inverness Park and Olema, two small nearby small communities. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area, a coastal strip of parkland, extends from the Point Reyes National Seashore to the Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is an hour’s drive south. The Wine Country is a an hour’s drive to the northeast.

Point Reyes itself is the most western part of the contiguous United States and was named by the first Spanish explorers after the three kings who brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to the baby Jesus on January 6, la dia de los reyes. Some years later, Sir Francis Drake careened his boat at an estero near Drake’s Beach and claimed the land for Queen Elizabeth I, naming the area Nova Albion. The name didn’t stick and Spanish explorers and settlers were the first to sparsely populate the region. Of course the Miwok Indians were really the first ones here having arrived 12,000 years ago.