"What seemed to make the place significant is there were these different individuals with different artistic specialties and different political interests and they were coming to gether at Druid Heights," Scolari says. "It appears to have been a place of ferment... The work that they did and the exchanges they had at Druid Heights had an influence outside into the broader society outside of Druid Heights."

Scolari says that in order to make it into the National Register, a place needs to be more than 50 years old. He says now places associated with the counter culture of the 50s, 60s and 70s are starting to meet that criteria.

"We’re starting to look back on this period of history and we’re starting to appreciate what it’s significance might be," says Scolari.

Scolari says the next step would be passing the site on to the California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation for consideration.

If your interest is piqued, the superintedant of Muir Woods told the Marin IJ there will be more tours:

"Tours will be on an invitational basis until we work out how to make it OK for the public to go there," [Mia] Monroe, the Muir Woods superintendent, explained. "But that's what we're working toward, because the consensus is that the story is fascinating both as local and park history."

Scolari agrees. "As a historian who has been studying this property because that’s just what we do, part of our process," he says. "I have found it really interesting... just from the little bit the property has emerged, it does seem to have a constituency and an interest."

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