Alex Bovee

Took a nice trip with the family and some good friends to the Tourist Club in Muir Woods this Sunday.  If you’ve never heard of it, the Tourist Club is a hike-in members only club situated in Muir Woods.  “Hike-in” meaning you can’t reach it by vehicle and “members only” meaning that you can’t get into the place except on a few key weekends when they open the doors to the general public.  Generally speaking, this means that any trip to go there has to be well timed and researched ahead of time to make sure you won’t leave disappointed (to this point: this was our second trip to the Tourist Club - the first did in fact end in disappointment).

All that said, if you time it right and you don’t get lost trying to find your way, you will leave pleased.  They serve several Belgian and German beers including Dunkelweizen (my fav) and hearty/salty snacks including some killer German sausages.  Probably not entirely the best idea to go there and have too many drinks as the hike back would most certainly result in some sort of disaster.  But, if you’re looking for a fun weekend getaway trip, this is definitely the spot.