John Muir - Tributes and Honors

Tributes and Honors

California celebrates John Muir Day on April 21 each year. Muir was the first person honored with a California commemorative day when legislation signed in 1988 created John Muir Day, effective from 1989 onward. Muir is one of three people so honored in California, along with Harvey Milk Day and Ronald Reagan Day.

The following places are named after Muir:

• Muir Knoll, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Mount Muir
• Muir Glacier, Alaska
• Three John Muir Trails (in California, Tennessee, and Wisconsin)
• John Muir Cabin, Juneau, Alaska
• John Muir Wilderness (southern and central Sierra Nevada, California)
• Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco
• Muir Beach, California
• John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California
• John Muir High School (Pasadena, California)
• John Muir Middle School (Los Angeles, California, San Jose, California, San Leandro, California and Wausau, Wisconsin)
• Muirlands Middle School (La Jolla, California)
• John Muir Elementary School (Berkeley, California; Martinez, California; Antioch, California; Merced, California; Modesto, California; San Bruno, California; Santa Monica,California; Stockton, California; Hoffman Estates, Illinois; Parma, Ohio; Kirkland, Washington; Madison, Wisconsin; and Portage, Wisconsin)
• John Muir College (a residential college of the University of California, San Diego)
• John Muir Country Park, in Dunbar; the John Muir Way in East Lothian
• John Muir Medical Center in Brentwood, Concord, and Walnut Creek, California
• The main-belt asteroid 128523 Johnmuir
• Muir's Peak next to Mount Shasta, California (also known as Black Butte)
• Mount Muir (elevation 4688') in Angeles National Forest, California, north of Pasadena
• Camp Muir in Mount Rainier National Park
• School of Life Sciences building at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland
• John Muir Park (Green Bay, Wisconsin)
• John Muir neighbourhood and elementary school in Sooke, British Columbia, Canada.
• A section of California State Route 132 between Coulterville and Smith Station at California State Route 120 has been designated the John Muir Highway. This road roughly follows part of the route Muir took on his first walk to Yosemite.
• American visual artist, musician and naturalist Wesley Berg released an album entitled "Listen to John Muir" in July 2010 under the nomme d'arte The Redwoods.

John Muir was featured on two U.S. commemorative postage stamps. A 5-cent stamp issued on April 29, 1964, was designed by Rudolph Wendelin, and showed Muir's face superimposed on a grove of redwood trees, and the inscription, "John Muir Conservationist". A 32-cent stamp issued on February 3, 1998, was part of the "Celebrate the Century" series, and showed Muir in Yosemite Valley, with the inscription "John Muir, Preservationist". An image of Muir, with the California Condor and Half Dome, appears on the California state quarter released in 2005. A quotation of his appears on the reverse side of the Indianapolis Prize Lilly Medal for conservation. On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted John Muir into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

Muir and Hudson Stuck are honored with a feast day on the liturgical of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on April 22.

Muirite (a mineral), Erigeron muirii, Carlquistia muirii (two species of aster), Ivesia muirii (a member of the rose family), Troglodytes troglodytes muiri (a type of wren), Ochotona princeps muirii (a subspecies of alpine rabbit), Thecla muirii (a butterfly), and Amplaria muiri (a millipede) were all named after John Muir.