Editing Stinson Beach, California (section)

==Annual events==
On the second Sunday of June, the town serves as the ending point for the annual running of the [[Dipsea Race]], the second-oldest footrace in the U.S. The California Road Club holds its Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb, one of the oldest bicycle races in the West, in early fall.  Since 2002, the race has been held on the third Saturday of the month, with about 400 bicyclists competing in the {{convert|12.5|mi|km|adj=on}} road race from Stinson to the head of Bolinas Lagoon and on to the West summit of Mount Tamalpais at Rock Spring.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.californiaroadclub.org/tam/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821091539/http://www.californiaroadclub.org/tam/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 21, 2006 |title=California Road Club, "The 46th Annual Mount Tamalpais Hill Climb, Saturday, September 16th 2006" |publisher=Californiaroadclub.org |access-date=2012-07-30}}</ref>

"Cuisine on the Green" is a yearly event held in the town's central park, the Village Green, each May. It features local restaurants and merchants selling a wide variety of foods, trinkets, clothing, art, and novelty items at different booths. Talent local to the area often performs on the small park stage. Cuisine on the Green benefits the Stinson Beach Community Center.

On July 4 of every year, a "tug-of-war" is held with Bolinas across the inlet dividing the two communities. Thirty women from each shore pull against each other until a winner is declared, and then 30 men from each take their turn. It is a slice of life, pure Americana, and always contested both during the actual event and then afterward in the local bars of Smiley's and the Sand Dollar, where the winners' trophies are displayed.