Potato Patch Shoal
USA /
California /
Muir Beach /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Muir Beach
World / United States / California
fishing area, water, shoal, sandbar
Northernmost area of San Francisco Bar alluvial silt deposits, which bar entry to the Golden Gate and require dredging. Waves breaking over the shoal are visible at low tides from the coastal hills between Fort Cronkhite and Tennessee Valley. Named for the 1800s potato farms near Bolinas Lagoon which shipped to markets in San Francisco: "Occasionally a potato boat would capsize on the sand bar, spilling its load..." (Doris Sloan, Geology of the SF Bay Region, UCPress 2006, p.121.) Marked by buoys also visible from shore. Prime "deepsea" fishing ground for SF sport charter boats.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°48'25"N 122°34'48"W
- Lake Berryessa 100 km
- Mountain Meadow Reservoir 308 km
- Lake Crowley 336 km
- Green Mountain Reservoir 1426 km
- Lake Thunderbird 2269 km
- Lake Buchanan 2336 km
- Stillhouse Hollow Lake 2400 km
- Somerville Lake 2519 km
- Lake Rathbun 2545 km
- Calcasieu Lake 2812 km
- USS Benevolence (AH-13) (approximate) 2.8 km
- San Francisco Main Ship Channel 4.2 km
- Point Bonita 4.8 km
- Tennessee Valley / Tennessee Cove 5 km
- Fort Cronkhite 5 km
- Muir Beach, California 6.1 km
- Fort Barry 6.1 km
- Golden Gate 6.7 km
- Richardson Bay 11 km
- San Francisco Bay 28 km