Hike to the Bay Area's Only Official "Black Sand Beach" (Marin Headlands)

Hike to the Bay Area's Only Official "Black Sand Beach" (Marin Headlands)

Here’s a great free weekend hike idea from SFGATE’s Eric Brooks. A California beach is down a single-lane road in the Marin Headlands that visitors tend to overlook. While black sand beaches are often associated with other places, such as Iceland and Hawaii, the Bay Area has one of its own.  You’ll have to venture through a thick layer of San Francisco fog, scale down 391 steps and time a visit to avoid king tides in order to see Black Sands Be…