Alamere Falls Trail
The authorized route uses Coast Trail and Wildcat Camp before continuing along beach at a safe tide.
Artwork inspired by Rex Brandt
The authorized route uses Coast Trail and Wildcat Camp before continuing along beach at a safe tide. Lakes, coastal scrub, forest, and bluff views matter as much as the final cascade. The essential frame combines distance—About 13 miles round trip—with route—Via Wildcat Camp—and tide—Critical.
Plan the official route and tide window, treating the beach as conditional terrain rather than taking the eroded cliff shortcut. The shortcut is unmaintained and dangerous, tides can trap hikers, poison oak is common, and the round trip is longer than many online summaries claim. Move deliberately from Coast Trail to Wildcat Beach, then use coastal waterfall as a check on the first impression rather than as another box to tick.
- Distance
- About 13 miles round trip
- Route
- Via Wildcat Camp
- Tide
- Critical
Quick guide
- Read first
- Plan the official route and tide window, treating the beach as conditional terrain rather than taking the eroded cliff shortcut.
- Connect it to
- Compare Coast Trail with Wildcat Beach, then use coastal waterfall to test what the site is trying to communicate.
Know before you go
- Read first
- Plan the official route and tide window, treating the beach as conditional terrain rather than taking the eroded cliff shortcut.
- Connect it to
- Compare Coast Trail with Wildcat Beach, then test that reading against coastal waterfall.
- Place in context
- Distance: About 13 miles round trip; Route: Via Wildcat Camp; Tide: Critical
- Plan the arrival
- For Alamere Falls Trail, navigate to Palomarin Trailhead, Point Reyes National Seashore, Bolinas, CA 94924, the reviewed public trailhead. Before hiking Alamere Falls Trail, recheck permits, parking capacity.
Good to know
The shortcut is unmaintained and dangerous, tides can trap hikers, poison oak is common, and the round trip is longer than many online summaries claim.
Notice these
- Coast Trail
- Wildcat Beach
- coastal waterfall