Inverness is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Marin County, California, United States.

[8] Inverness is located on the west shore of Tomales Bay, which runs southeast along the line of the San Andreas Fault.

In 1970, American singer and songwriter Jesse Colin Young moved his home and recording studio to Inverness.

In 1993, Young and his wife Connie founded Ridgetop Music, a label based out of their home in Inverness.

It became a summer resort where people from San Francisco and Oakland came to camp, hike and swim in Tomales Bay.

Vision Fire, which burned a large area of Point Reyes National Seashore and a number of homes built on the ridge.

The town is adjacent to the San Andreas Fault and is spread out along approximately 2 miles (3 km) of the western shore and valleys of Tomales Bay on the Point Reyes Peninsula.

Inverness has a Mediterranean climate heavily influenced by the nearby Pacific Ocean, with cool, rainy winters and mild, dry summers.

[9] The community experiences a fairly narrow range of temperatures, due to its position only a few miles inland.

The warmest month is actually September, a common pattern in the Bay Area due to the annual rollover in ocean currents.