Tomales Bay State Park, State park in Marin County, US.

Tomales Bay State Park covers about 2,000 acres split between a west area on the Point Reyes peninsula, next to Point Reyes National Seashore, and a mostly unimproved east area. The west side holds four beaches: Indian Beach, Heart's Desire Beach, Pebble Beach and Shell Beach. Only Heart's Desire has road access, parking, picnic grounds and restrooms; the others are reached by trail or boat.

The park was established in 1952 to make multiple bay beaches accessible to the public. This protected status preserved a stretch of California coastline for future generations to enjoy.

The reconstructed Coast Miwok dwellings at Indian Beach offer visitors a chance to see how indigenous people lived in this coastal area. These structures help explain the traditional ways of the first inhabitants who called this place home.

Hearts Desire Beach is the most accessible with vehicle parking, restrooms, and picnic tables right by the water. The other beaches require hiking or arriving by boat to visit them.

Indian Beach, one of the four west-shore beaches, holds two reconstructed Coast Miwok dwellings and an interpretive program on the people who lived here for several thousand years before Europeans arrived. The other beaches are reached by trail or boat, not by multi-hour hikes.