Muir Woods Wine Country Combo Tour
Our Redwoods Wine Combo Tour Highlights
"The Best Combo Tour in San Francisco Bay Area "
- Redwoods Park and Wine Country Combo Tour
- Guided Walking Tour in Muir Woods Forest
- Travel on Scenic Highway 1 to Muir Beach
- Visit Sonoma Historic Downtown
- Complimentary Red, White & Champagne Tasting
- Complimentary Olive oil, Chocolate & Cheese Tasting
- Complimentary Pick & Drop off at your Hotel
- Tax & Entrance Fees are Included in the tour price
- Daily Private Tours by 4x4 SUV & much more…
Description of Muir Woods and Wine Country Combo Tour
This very popular combo tour will take you to the ancient forest of giant redwoods in Muir Woods National Monument and California Wine Country in one day adventure. This Muir Woods and Wine Country combo tour suits the whole family with or without kids. Your tax, pickup and drop off and Muir Woods park entrance tickets are included in this discounted offer. This will also save you the long line in front of the cashier at Muir Woods park entrance and expensive wine tasting in the wine country.
Our tour guide will pick you up at 9 am at your hotel and then drive you to Muir Woods National Park, located 20 miles north of San Francisco. In Muir Woods, our tour guide will offer you a walking guided tour through this ancient forest of giant redwoods, the tallest trees on earth. Within this magnificent national park, there are numerous and easy hiking trails along Kent creek, a gift-coffee shop, public phones and restrooms. Please don't expect cell phone service in this deep canyon where sun can hardly reach the valley floor because the tall redwood trees. Our tour guides will escort you throughout Muir Woods Park, assist you with photos and answer your questions regarding the unique ecosystem and history of these giant redwoods. Some Redwoods are over 2500 years old and reach almost 380 feet in Redwood National Park, located in northern California. In Muir Woods, you still find redwoods over 1000 years old and extremely tall as well.
Muir Woods National Monument was created by Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 and was named after John Muir, the father founder of the Sierra Club which contributed to the creation of the National Park system in the United States
After this green adventure in Muir Woods forest, you will travel to Muir Beach overlook and enjoy a short hike on the Oceanside, located off California scenic highway 1. Afterwards, you travel north towards California wine country to enjoy your first wine tasting experience . The choice of wineries will depend on your taste and preference. Either way, we guarantee that you will have a fantastic and relaxing experience in the wine country. We will also visit a charming winery where you can sample local olive oil in the olive oil press located within this Italian style winery. You will also enjoy complimentary red and white wine tasting in addition to complimentary cheese tasting experience in Sonoma Valley. Our tour guide will also guide you through the historic Sonoma downtown plaza, the birthplace of the statehood of California.
Sonoma Plaza is charming square filled with small boutique wineries, restaurants, shopping courtyards and offers visitors a relaxing and pleasant experience to enjoy themselves away from the commercial wineries and towns in Napa Valley. Sonoma is also home to the oldest vines, wineries and even vineyards in California. At Sonoma Plaza, you can visit the Spanish-Mexican old mission , the barracks and Sonoma cheese factory.
If you wish to visit Napa Valley, you can ask our tour guide to drive you to one of the elegant wineries in Napa to enjoy wine or sparkling wine tasting (wine tasting fees are not included). Please note that wine tasting fees are not included in your tour price. We recommend Sonoma Valley for a relaxing wine tasting experience and dining downtown Sonoma where you can find fine dining and gourmet cuisines and casual BBQ restaurants, we recommend one of the famous or infamous restaurants on the plaza including the Italian restaurant "Della Santina's", the French-American restaurant " the girl and the fig" ,the El Dorado Kitchen, famous for its California cuisine style inspired from French cuisine, "La Casa" restaurant serving typical Mexican Cuisine and the Portuguese restaurant called "La Salette", serving contemporary Portuguese cuisine . There are other elegant and casual restaurants including the Sonoma cheese factory serving salads, sandwiches and fresh BBQs at affordable rates.
After lunch, we will escort you to one or two more wineries to enjoy spectacular views and wine tasting. An optional guided tour may also take you to visit one of Sonoma wineries and caves to learn more about wine growing and aging. A side trip may also take you to one of the oldest wineries in California where you can picture the largest and biggest wine barrels in the world!
After such an exciting wine experience in California wine country, your tour guide will drive you back to San Francisco. For private tours, we also offer you the choice to be dropped off in downtown Sausalito where you can enjoy your dinner and get back to San Francisco by ferry (the ferry tickets are not included but pretty affordable).
Our Tour Prices
2 persons minimum are required to conduct our private tour
Tour Prices: |
Totally Private Tour Price per person |
|---|---|
| 1 person | $299.00 |
| 2 persons | $299.00 |
| 3 persons | $229.00 |
| 4 persons | $198.00 |
| 5 persons | \$159.00 |
| 6 persons | $129.00 |
| 7 persons | $119.00 |
- Private tours mean 100% privacy.
- 2 persons minimum are required to conduct this private tour.
- Our limousines tours are based on a flat rate of $ 119 per hour+ tax. 8 hours minimum are required
- Daily Departures to Muir Woods combined with California Wine Country.
- Duration: 8 hours. Custom tours are also available to meet your own schedule and itinerary
- Included: Tax, Muir Woods park entrance tickets are included but wine tasting fees are not included.
- Not included: Meals , driver’s gratuity and Wine tasting in Napa Valley.
How To Secure Your Reservation? 
- You can secure your booking directly through our secure reservation page (click here) and scroll down to "Step 1-Tour Information" section to choose your tour from the "select tour" drop down where you selectthis particular tour called "Muir Woods Wine Country Private SUV Tour" (Redwood National Park Tour), date and number of persons.
- Then, please fill out your credit card information under section "Step 2-Cardholder Information".
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For groups of 7 persons or more and for all charter van or bus tours, please send your Travel Inquiry to info@muirwoodstoursf.com. We will provide you with our group discounted rate and a detailed quote. We offer local and international clientele a complete leisure and incentive tour packages from corporate, leisure and business travelers in 15 different languages. Let us make your travel experience a successful one. Our goal is to meet and exceed your expectations!
Muir Woods Wine Country Tour Itinerary
9:00 AM Pick Up:
Complimentary pick up and drop off at your hotel in downtown San Francisco, in the Fisherman's Wharf area, Van Ness , Japan Town or in southern Marin County. Our driver will come to your house or hotel to meet and greet you with a sign displaying your first and last name.
9:30 AM - 11:00 Drive to Muir Wood National Park via Mill Valley
Travel on the panoramic highway via mill valley on back roads to get to Muir Woods National Park round 9:40 am. Your entrance fees to Muir Woods National Monument are included. Their rates keep going up but our rates have not changed for years to make our private tours more affordable for everybody. Take a hike or enjoy an exciting guided walking tour through the giant redwoods with our tour guide. You will also have free time to shop at Muir Woods’ gift shop or have a break in the coffee shop.
11:00AM - 11:30 AM Visit Muir Beach Overlook
After this exciting eco-tour to the redwoods forest in Muir Woods national monument, our tour guide will drive you through Kent Canyon to the beautiful Muir Beach overlook. Muir Beach overlook is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. This breathtaking vista point overlooks a picturesque quiet cove; a hidden beach and beautiful lagoons. We will take a short hike to a rocky point on the Oceanside. This short but breathtaking overlook follows a narrow a crest of a coastal promontory where the land sheers off dramatically on both sides down to the Ocean about hundreds of feet below. This is the perfect place for whales and birds watching.
12:30 PM Your first wines tasting in the Wine Country
As we drive north on highway 101 towards the Wine Country, you can see Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, a 1956 double-decker bridge that measures 5.4 miles and ends just by San Quentin State Prison. Few miles away, you will be able to see Franck Lloyd's architectural masterpiece and national monument known as Marin County Civic Center. Few miles north, we will take exit highway 37 towards Sonoma and Napa valleys. You will get to Sonoma Valley through Carneros wine growing region famous for its elegant chardonnays and pinots. You will first enjoy a wine tasting experience in a charming winery where you may also visit an olive oil press to sample as many olive oil as you like with bread. Afterwards, we will visit the historic Sonoma downtown plaza where you will enjoy your lunch.
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Lunch within a winery or in downtown Sonoma
Delight yourself with California finest dishes
Sonoma historic downtown plaza is the birthplace of the Statehood of California and home to beautiful shopping plazas, boutiques, historic monuments like the Mexican Mission and barracks, wine shops and above all local and international restaurants.
On this charming plaza, there are fine Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Mexican and Californian restaurants. Other local and casual restaurants can also be found in Sonoma downtown like the Sonoma cheese factory that offers fresh and affordable BBQs. You can also find more local restaurants including a vegetarian place where customers can enjoy their lunch out in the backyard. For fine dining and gourmet cuisine lovers, we recommend the Italian restaurant called "Della Santina’s", El Dorado Kitchen, famous for its California fine cuisine, the famous French restaurant “ the girl and the fig” where reservation is required and la Casa for Mexican cuisine lovers. Don’t miss the cheese factory where you can sample as many cheese as you want but watch out for the habanero jack cheese! It’s very spicy. For more information about these restaurants, we came up with this below list of restaurants based on our tour guides and customers’ feedback:
Della Santina's Trattoria –Rated by our customers: *****
This is probably the best restaurant in term of quality and quantity on the square. Prices are reasonable and the food is delicious. You can enjoy lunch and dinner in the cozy atmosphere in the back patio, which is covered in grape vines and wisteria, and surrounded by balustrades that are planted with assorted flowers. Don’t miss their enoteca wine tasting room. If you are looking for fine and traditional Italian cuisine, this is your best shot!
www.dellasantinas.com/
El Dorado Kitchen: Rated by our customers: ****
This restaurant offers a stone courtyard for outside dining, a relaxing lounge with a fireplace for cocktails. El Dorado Kitchen is open for lunch and dinner daily. Executive Chef Justin Everett describes his food as “farm driven” .Others consider it as a California cuisine with French influence.
http://www.eldoradosonoma.com/
La Casa- Traditional Mexican Cuisine Rated by our customers: ****
Sisters, Ana and Marisela, long time Sonoma residents and Latina’s are bringing the smells and authentic traditional cuisine from Jalisco region of Mexico to La Casa in Sonoma Valley.
http://www.lacasarestaurant.com/
The Girl and the Fig: Rated by our customers: *****
It is an American restaurant serving French style cuisine. According to their reviews, this is a good place for dining but not easy to get a table for lunch without reservation. The price seems somehow reasonable for certain customers but pricy for others.
http://www.thegirlandthefig.com/
La Salette-
Contemporary Portuguese Cuisine. Rated by our customers: ***
restaurant offers contemporary Portuguese cuisine. It’s the realization of Chef Manuel Azevedo’s dream to bring Portuguese cuisine throughout America and the Wine Country.
http://www.lasalette-restaurant.com/
The Plaza Bistro: Mixture of American European cuisine. Rated by our customers: ***
Offers Italian –American mixture of casual and classic cuisine.
http://theplazabistro.com/
Swiss Hotel Restaurant: Italian modern cuisine. Rated by our customers: ****
A full service restaurant featuring modern renditions of classical Italian fare as well as pizza from a wood burning oven.
www.swisshotelsonoma.com
Sonoma Cheese Factory: Rated by our customers: ***
Offers casual BBQ, ribs, sandwiches, burgers, cheese, gelato, and a gift shop
http://www.sonomscheesefactory.com/
Sunflower Café: Salad and sandwiches Café. Rated by our customers: **+
Salad and sandwiches and vegetarian food. This is a self-service cozy place. Customers can eat in the backyard
http://www.sonomasunflower.com/
Basque Boulangerie: French Bakery: Rated by our customers: ***
Basque Boulangerie Cafe, Sandwich/Sub and Pastries Place in Sonoma.
The tour guide will also offer you a guided tour through Sonoma historic downtown where you can visit one of the oldest missions in California and the barracks.
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM One More Wine Tasting Experience
After lunch, your tour guide will drive you to a new winery off the beaten path or to a castle winery. Among the wineries you may visit , we will choose for you two or three wineries from these wineries: Larson Family Winery, Cline Cellars, Homewood Winery, Artesa, Loxton, Roche Winery , Jacuzzi Family Vineyards and Olive Press, Viansa Winery, Robledo Vineyards, Sebastiani and Domain Carneros. We pick up these wineries for you based on your taste and schedule. For all Napa Valley wineries, the wine tasting is not included in Napa. However, we will be happy to drive you to Napa Valley in your Private Tour. Eventually, we may however, manage to get some complimentary wine tasting in Sonoma Valley but again, wine tasting fees are not incldued.
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Back to San Francisco via Sausalito
After such an exciting day in the wine country, we will drive you back to San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. Our tour guide will drive you up to Marin Headlands vista point to picture beautiful views of San Francisco bay area and the Pacific Ocean. You may also ask your tour guide to drop you off in downtown Sausalito where you can enjoy dinner and get back to San Francisco by ferry ( ferry tickets are not included but very affordable).
