Seven Grey Foxes is located in a quiet rural area three miles as the crow flies from the Pacific Ocean. There are fields and wooded hills everywhere, and only a few houses. Coastal West Marin is one of the still unspoiled areas of North America. Look west from Seven Grey Foxes and you will see the Point Reyes National Seashore and the low mountains of the Inverness Ridge which beyond your view 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. The small town of Point Reyes was Station a narrow gauge railroad station before any roads existed.

In that nearby pueblo you will find interesting restaurants, unusual shops, and three art galleries. The Bovine Bakery makes its own coffeecake from scratch every morning and is a pleasant walk down the winding country road to town. There are two good breakfast places, The Pine Cone and The Station House Café and both of them serve lunch. The Station House is a good place for dinner, too. Stellina is another good lunch and dinner place. The local Dance Palace puts on outstanding programs on weekends. A classic chorus performs here in the summer. Kayaking and Horseback riding are available. Deep sea fishing is available at Bodega Bay.

Seven Grey Foxes has three lodging units: two private room and bath suites; and a set-off, 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 MOMA as Distinguished American Architects. 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 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 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 north east.

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 here first and before them many large animals (about 35 large species) roamed the area. They vanished about twelve thousand years ago and some anthropologists theorize that their disappearance was because of a meteor strike in North America. Others think early man did this Serengeti-like fauna in.