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Bay Trail Richmond 2024 Report
TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee has released their 25th annual Bay Trail Richmond New Year Report. This colorful report summarizes progress toward completing and improving the Bay Trail in Richmond during 2023. Highlights include: – Point Molate Bay Trail – Richmond San Rafael Bridge Trail – Extending the trail from…
BTCEB Club Elections Upcoming
Are you passionate about mountain biking? Would you like to be part of advocacy, trail work, and expanding access for mountain bikers in the East Bay? We may have the right volunteer position for you! The Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay (BTCEB) will be holding elections for…
Mount Diablo Trails Alliance
Mark Moskowitz and Eric Johnston have formed Mount Diablo Trails Alliance and have set in motion some terrific trail stewardship and advocacy efforts at Mount Diablo State Park. They have been performing trail maintenance on MDSP trails for several years and have built a constructive relationship with the park…
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Trail Work in Joaquin Miller Park SAVE THE DATE
BTCEB CROCKETT HILLS TRAIL WORK DAY, Thursday April 4, 2024
BTCEB CROCKETT HILLS TRAIL WORK DAY, Thursday March 14, 2024
BTCEB CROCKETT HILLS TRAIL WORK DAY, Saturday 3/9/2024
BTCEB CROCKETT HILLS TRAIL WORK DAY, Thursday March 7, 2024
Lime Ridge Environmental Evaluation Nearing Completion
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. …
Keep Those Gates Closed
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…
Crockett Hills Sugar City Gets a Little Sweeter
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…
Joaquin Miller Park 2023 Recap
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….
Successful Volunteer Work Day at Crockett Hills
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…
How did Joaquin Miller Park come to be?
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…
East Bay Regional Parks Approves E-Bikes!
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…
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