June 2025 is Mountain Bike & Trail Stewardship month for the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) and the state of California! BTCEB is participating with the California Mountain Biking Coalition (CAMTB) on a state resolution for California State Mountain Bike & Trail Stewardship month and has advocated locally with the EBRPD Board of Directors to declare June 2025 as Mountain Bike & Trail Stewardship Month locally. This isn’t nearly as exciting, sexy, or cool as a new trail opening up, but it’s the type of behind-the-scenes work that makes new trails a closer reality. Resolutions like this are the result of building positive relationships with elected decision makers. These resolutions help to document the broad benefits of mountain biking as well as the breadth of experiences and interests of mountain bike riders, and they help to educate elected decision makers and to inform them that an increasingly large number of voters are interested in mountain biking. This behind-the-scenes work leads to more tangible projects like the Briones Pilot Program and the Wildcat Flow Trail Project.
As part of the effort with EBRPD, our BTCEB advocacy team pulled together members from our local trail community on a joint letter of support. 18 organizations signed onto the letter, and the Sierra Club also sent a separate letter of support. The organizations included a number of Bay Area NICA teams, the NorCal League, several mountain bike advocacy and trail stewardship organizations like BTCEB, Stewards of Briones, Mount Diablo Trails Alliance, CAMTB, BAMBi, and some broader trail- or bike-oriented groups like Bay Area Ridge Trail, Bay Area Bike Project, and Bike East Bay. Thank you to all the organizations that signed on and we hope to cast a wider net in 2026. If you know of an organization that would like to support this effort, please let us know. Below you’ll find the logos of all the groups who signed on:
CAMTB is supporting a variety of programming at the statewide level and anticipates that the CA State Senate will pass the resolution later this month. 2024 was the first year to have June celebrated as Mountain Biking Month for both EBRPD and the state of California. This year’s effort expanded to include Trail Stewardship, a natural fit to recognize this month because the mountain bike community is particularly active in trail stewardship, and this provides an opportunity to educate elected officials and the general public about the trail steward ship that the mountain bike community brings to the table and its benefit to all trail users.
Follow the link to find out more about the CAMTB Mountain Bike Month effort.
If you decide to take the CAMTB Mountain Bike Month Pledge you’ll receive a bonus benefit.
