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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…

BTCEB has put in over 400 hours of trail stewardship at Crockett Hills so far in 2025, performed by 45 of our volunteer members.  The bulk of the work has been focused on drainage, hardening, berms, and rollers on the Sugar City trail.  Some additional drainage and tread work…

The North Basin Strip is the portion of the McLaughlin Eastshore State Park located south of the Gilman Sports Fields in Berkeley. This area is approximately 20 acres and includes 2,800 linear feet of shoreline. EBRPD is embarking on a planning project to develop a preliminary design to improve…

The East Bay Regional Park District is in the process of updating their park Master Plan.  This is a roughly once a decade activity that provides direction and commitment by the district to pursue certain things.  This is one of the key points in the public process where we…

This article is reviving the long running coverage of restaurants near Joaquin Miller Park that are friendly to mountain bikers and serve beer.  No friendly indoor parking or no beer, no review.  And hence you can see my parking spot in the picture.  El Agavero in Montclair Village has…

Our advocacy efforts with EBMUD, the East Bay water utility company, continue to make strides. As you know, EBMUD manages vital watershed lands that are open for public recreation, and BTCEB has been actively working to expand mountain biking opportunities within these areas. We’re pleased to report that our…

The East Bay Regional Park District board approved formalizing bike access to 5.75 miles of trails from the Briones Pilot Project. The pilot was a temporary 20 month activity. These include the first bike only directional trails in the EBRPD. The pilot has also closed and restored 5 miles…

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? Well then, come join our Board of Directors! The Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay (BTCEB) will be holding elections for several…

🌟 Applications are now open for CAMTB’s Teen Ambassador Cohort 3!  Are you a high school junior or senior in California and love trail stewardship? This is your chance to step up as a leader in trail advocacy and mountain biking across California! 🚵‍♀️ Don’t miss the chance to…

East Bay Regional Park District is planning a project to develop the North Basin Strip of the Eastshore State Park, and is requesting public input. This is that tiny bit of land down by the Gilman soccer fields that is used for MTB clinics each year by Wildcat Composite…

What kind of mindset do you bring to the trails?  What kind of mindset do you encounter?  What can we all do to make interactions go better?  We each make a difference one way or another in each user we encounter.   Slow and Say Hello, Be Nice Say…

Photo credit – Rebecca Lewington. We’d like to thank the 25 volunteers that came out to Crockett Hills on Saturday November 9th, 2024 to install much needed hardening on Soaring Eagle Trail around the cattle pond. This area has been a drainage challenge for years due to several seeps….