Muir Beach will close sometime in late June through November for construction and restoration, as the parking lot and pedestrian access routes are realigned and resurfaced and new restroom and picnic facilities installed. The efforts are part of a National Park Service project to restore the creek’s ecology and create habitat for endangered and threatened species. This phase of the project, which began in 2009, will realign the parking lot in order to allow a channel of Redwood Creek to connect to floodplain and continue invasive-species management and native-plant revegetation. The beach will be closed to all except people hiking through from other areas. Local businesses will remain open but the beach parking lot and restrooms will be closed.