Point Reyes National Seashore, Nature reserve in Marin County, United States

Point Reyes National Seashore covers 71,028 acres on a triangular peninsula in Marin County, California. Its southern half is a forested ridge rising to Mount Wittenberg at 428 m; the north is a long spit separating Tomales Bay from the ocean. Drakes Estero cuts deep fingers into the tip, where the lighthouse stands. Pale tan and grey cliffs drop to dark sand coves, and the headland records North America's highest measured wind speed, 212 km/h.

Coast Miwok villages of 75 to several hundred people stood along the creeks for thousands of years, fishing with woven surf nets and hunting deer and quail. Francis Drake likely camped here in 1579, and on 6 January 1603 Sebastián Vizcaíno named the headland Punta de los Reyes after the Three Kings. Congressman Clem Miller introduced the bill creating the national seashore, established on 13 September 1962 under President Kennedy.

The name Punta de los Reyes comes from Sebastián Vizcaíno, who sighted the headlands on January 6, 1603, Three Kings' Day. Coast Miwok villages of 75 to several hundred people once stood along the creeks, using woven surf nets and drip nets to fish. Since 1817, when a Franciscan mission ranch brought cattle to the north side of San Francisco Bay, ranching has continued; some leases allow commercial grazing today.

The park's 100 miles (160 km) of coastline take in beaches, estuaries and lagoons, and the cape is the windiest point on the North American Pacific coast, with a recorded gust of 212 km/h. The Earthquake Trail, a short interpretive path, explains the San Andreas Fault geology. The lighthouse stands at the peninsula's western tip; the small town of Olema, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Point Reyes Station, serves as the gateway and holds the visitor center.

The peninsula sits on a separate piece of Earth called the Salinian Block, separated from the mainland by the San Andreas Fault. This geological trait has allowed plants and rocks to develop here that differ from the rest of the California coast.