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A New Way for Marin Residents to Share (and Discover) Incredible Places to Stay

How a Marin-based startup Trustr is reinventing vacation home and travel recommendation sharing. 

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Inspired Choices For Amazing Gift Giving: The 2025 Marin Holiday Gift Guide

Our holiday shopping guide features top Bay Area local businesses, elevated style, wellness and curated lifestyle experiences.

by Marin Magazine Staff
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We look forward to seeing you at the Kickoff Summe We look forward to seeing you at the Kickoff Summer Soiree this Sunday @cavallopoint 

We thought we’d help those attending with a few conversation starters- Oh, and did you hear? Cavallo Point is offering 40% off rooms and 50% off suites on the night of the party🌟

See you there!
The HOTEST Man to ever run the Dipsea! June 14, 2 The HOTEST Man to ever run the Dipsea!

June 14, 2026 marks the 115th running of the Dipsea. This means 1,500 men and women, ranging in age from 8–80, most of them Marin residents, will leave downtown Mill Valley beginning at 8 a.m. and climb up 685 concrete steps, then run seven miles along some of Mt Tamalpais’ most rutted and steep dirt trails and finish in Stinson Beach near the Pacific Ocean. Sound like fun? It ain’t!

But for nearly every year since 1905, thousands of runners have insisted upon doing it. Only during two years of the Great Depression, four years of WWII and one year of the Covid pandemic were runners forced to stay home because the Dipsea had been cancelled. Yet, according to historian Barry Spitz’s 270-page book Dipsea, The Greatest Race, the weather — be it rain, fog or freezing cold — has never caused a cancellation.

Nor has harsh heat ever halted Dipsea mania. As Spitz chronicles on page 63, “The 1940 race was held on an oppressively hot day, perhaps the hottest in Dipsea history, with morning temperatures above 90 degrees.” Obvious results of the high temperatures were the runner’s slow times. “The winner Ernie Marinoni’s time,” Spitz points out, “was the second slowest winning time ever.” And Marinoni (note the first five letters of his last name), pictured above, wasn’t your typical runner. “He fought 183 fights as a lightweight boxer named Johnnie Costello,” writes Spitz. “He could really withstand punishment.” Who knows what the weather will be like for this year’s running of the Dipsea, but there’s one thing all of its runners will have to have in common — the ability to really withstand punishment.

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Don’t forget to buy your tickets to the Summer Kic Don’t forget to buy your tickets to the Summer Kickoff Party at the Cavallo Point Lodge!

Enjoy a complimentary welcome drink, live music by David Martin’s House Party, delicious food and an exclusive first look at what’s ahead for Cavallo Point’s dining spaces, including the highly anticipated return of local favorites, Farley Bar and Murray Circle!

Grab your tickets at the link in our bio 🔗

📅 Sunday, June 14
🕒 3:00 to 6:00 PM
📍 601 Murray Circle, Sausalito, CA 94965
🎟️ $50

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Weaving from downtown Mill Valley to the town of S Weaving from downtown Mill Valley to the town of Stinson Beach, the Dipsea will treat you to views, but also make sure you’re getting a workout. You’ll start off with a climb up the 680ish stairs, and later find yourself crossing the Panoramic Highway.

This year’s race is on June 14. Are you going? Comment below👇

Here’s what you need to know:
🏃 Length: About 7 miles, depending on your route
🚻 Amenities: Restrooms, picnic tables and water fountains
🅿️ Parking: Street Parking near Old Mill Park
🥾 Known for: Being the oldest footrace this side of the Mississippi
🐶 Dogs: No

Read our Ultimate Guide to the Dipsea Trail in our bio 🔗

📷 Tim Porter

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Marin Magazine’s Best of County Party is coming! Marin Magazine’s Best of County Party is coming!

Join us on Friday, July 31st, to celebrate this year’s Best of the County winners and the local businesses that make Marin County so incredible.

Enjoy music, delicious bites and an open bar provided by our partners, Sausalito Liquor and J Vineyards & Winery. Experience fun activations, great swag bags and much more!

Get tickets now! Link in bio 🔗

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By definition, hotels typically cater to travelers By definition, hotels typically cater to travelers with limited time in the area, especially those in bucket-list locations like Sausalito. A few, though, become beloved by locals, offering opportunities to celebrate life’s milestones in style, reconnect with friends over dinner or just drop in for a post-work drink — think a combination of the Ahwahnee in Yosemite, Hotel del Coronado in San Diego and the bar from Cheers.

Cavallo Point, a Michelin two-key property, however, does it all while tucked away in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s Fort Baker. And nearly 20 years after the debut of its sustainably repurposed military facilities, this luxurious lodge is welcoming neighbors with renewed vigor as DiamondRock Hospitality, which purchased the property in 2018, partners with the original developers to bring back a restored sensibility and sense of place.

The desire to include those who have been part of the property’s identity from its inception comes in part from the man who helped build it. “Without the community, Cavallo Point would not be as successful as it is,” says Mike Freed, co-founder and managing partner of Passport Resorts. In 2008 Freed and his team famously blocked a mega-Marriott plan to take over the space and instead, with a keen respect for the environment and preserving the original buildings, created Cavallo Point.

Read about Cavallo Point’s new improvements, plus its rich history in our bio 🔗

✍️ Jeanne Cooper

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Don’t let this be you 🫣 Voting closes Friday, May Don’t let this be you 🫣

Voting closes Friday, May 29th at 4 p.m. PST.

Don’t be late ☠️

Link in bio to vote 🔗

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The June issue has arrived! Here are the features The June issue has arrived!

Here are the features you can look forward to reading:

🌁 Cavallo Point at 20 Years
Marin’s iconic hotel is a destination for visitors and locals alike to gather with friends and family

🚌 Marin Transit
Four Marin locals share how they take advantage of public transportation

This month’s issue also includes a special SPACES section and an ultimate Bay Area summer guide by Local Getaways.

Read all these great stories and more in our June issue. Link in bio 🔗

📷 Kodiak Greenwood

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In 1905, Marin benefactors William and Elizabeth K In 1905, Marin benefactors William and Elizabeth Kent (Kentfield, Kent Middle School) purchased over 600 acres of what was then Redwood Canyon (it’s now Muir Woods) for $45,000. At the time, William famously told Elizabeth, “If we lose all our money but save the trees, it will be worth it.” The Kents believed the best way to save the redwoods was to donate the acreage to the US. Government. 

Yet it wasn’t easy! Local water interests wanted to dam the canyon and create a reservoir for southern Marin. To the rescue came Gifford Pinchot, a Yale classmate of Kent’s and the first head of what is now the National Park Service. Working together in 1907, Kent and Pinchot convinced President Teddy Roosevelt that his recently signed Antiquities and Monuments Act allowed him to designate “objects of historical and scientific interest” as national monuments. So in January of 1908, Muir Woods National Monument, named for Kent’s acquaintance the naturalist John Muir, became a reality. Then in 1911, as the photo of Muir Woods Inn attests, President Roosevelt’s second wife Edith visited Muir Woods as guests of the Kents. Unfortunately, the inn was later destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. 

Read the full story (plus what's affecting Muir Woods today) in our bio 🔗

✍️ Jim Wood

📷 Collection of Fred Runner

#marinmagazine #lookingback #muirwoods @nationalparkservice
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