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Are you interested in giving back to area trails through trail stewardship?  Sign up for email notifications for trail work opportunities is always available on our Trails page. Join the BTCEB group on Meetup for another good way to hear about…

The City of Walnut Creek posted the Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration Notice of Intent to adopt and completed a comment period that was extended two weeks to October 16, 2023.  Comments received are being addressed.  All comments are anticipated to be addressed in the next few months. …

Although this one is not from Crockett Hills it’s perfect example of an EBPRD cattle gate. Cattle have been moved out of the top and middle fields at Crockett Hills so barring a fence failure or a gate being left open we’ve got a good chance of avoiding cattle…

Trail stewardship at Crockett Hills in 2023 finished up with a surge despite a rough start to the year.  Sugar City saw two work days focused on rebuilding and re-shaping rollers, repair and extension of several berms along with drain improvements in those areas.   The rebuilding and reshaping of…

Storms! It’s been a busy and interesting year in Joaquin Miller Park (JMP).  Significant changes came to JMP due to the 2023 winter storms.  Two storm systems dumped massive amounts of rain on the Oakland Hills and beyond and brought 70 mph plus winds to the region.  BTCEB responded….

Crockett Hills is both a beautiful place and home to the finest singletrack in the East Bay. Here, Trail Angels from the Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay make their way to the work site first thing in the morning. (Photo: Rebecca Lewington, BTCEB) TWENTY-SIX volunteers hit the…

There’s a historical record of a native American village in Trestle Glen, aka Indian Gulch. I’ve also read of one somewhere around the bottom of Palos Colorados. You would want to be near a waterway, and the way the Hayward Fault causes the steep hillside to meet a valley…

The East Bay Regional Park District Board voted 5-0 to approve class 1 e-bike access to natural surface roads and trails (less than 8 foot wide) wherever bikes are permitted at their September 5th board meeting. Class 2 e-bike access to paved regional trails was also approved. Staff were…

The East Bay Regional Park District Briones Pilot has issued a new feedback survey.   Please take a few moments to provide feedback.   This is part of their data collection that will feed into their upcoming 6 month update.  It’s important as stakeholders to participate and share your…

The Walnut Creek Parks Recreation Opens Space Commission (PROS) met on 8/14/23.  The main agenda item was an update on the Lime Ridge flow trail and actions from the December 2020 Trails Subcommittee Report.  Public Works Manager Mike Vickers and Ranger Corey Frazier gave updates on the flow trail…

If you’re looking for some trail maintenance basics then check out this short series from the Arizona Trail Association. Yes there are some differences between Arizona and the East Bay but the fundamentals are the same for brushing and drainage for sustainable trails.  Brushing of the trail corridor keeps…

Photo L-R: Josh, Tom G, Rebecca, Scott, David, Jared, Jeff, Lauren, Alan, and KC For the first time since the world was turned upside-down by the pandemic, the BTCEB’s board of directors (well, most of us) actually rode mountain bikes together! We had a blast on the scenic and…