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Photo credit Rebecca Lewington BTCEB in partnership with the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) will be hosting four trail stewardship days in the months from January to April 2026.  This winter schedule is as follows: Saturday, January 10 Saturday, February 7 Saturday, March 7 (changed from Saturday, March…

EBRPD Board Meeting on December 16, 2025 Photo by Rebecca Lewington. We’re asking you to FULL SEND a public comment email to the EBRPD Board asking them to approve their 2026 budget with re-allocations to fully support their Capital Improvement Plan (CIP).  Your comment can be as simple as…

The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) held a public meeting in Berkeley on November 19, 2025, to present a preliminary design for improvements to the North Basin Strip portion of the McLaughlin Eastshore State Park located south of the Gilman Sports Fields. BTCEB board members KC Chaudhry, Tom…

Thanks to all who turned out for the trail work day at Crockett Hills on Saturday, 11/8. Nearly 60 volunteers worked alongside EBRPD park staff to rebuild trail tread and improve drainage on Soaring Eagle trail. EBRPD park staff brought their Toro Dingo, and this was a productive mix…

October 2025 The just-after Halloween Edition . . . Photo credit: Harjinder Cheema on Unsplash About BTCEB Bicycle Trails Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in 1987 by a dedicated group of volunteers who fought the impending closure of almost all bike trails in the East Bay. Today we are…

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 in the midst of a planning project to develop a preliminary design…

Image credit: your friends at Google AI Hey there riders! October may have been all trick but November is sure to be our TREAT! Join us on Saturday, 11/29, at Napa Skyline Wilderness Park for our November Gala Ride. As always we’ll gather at the main parking entrance (not…

Or … now for something completely different … Here’s the second in what is probably going to be a series of “What’s In Your Pack?” articles. Okay, it’s not completely different than Rebecca’s pack contents but it’s got some noticeable differences and ventures where “normal” folks know better.  (Normal…

It’s been 10 years since the last phase of trails was built at Crockett Hills, including Sugar City, Tree Frog, Warep, and Goldfinch.   It’s nearly 10 miles of singletrack, and it’s the largest legal access singletrack system in the East Bay. Through that time it’s suffered from grazing…

Advocacy and Trail Stewardship Leaders Meet The first Singletrack Summit Central Coast was held October 10 – 12 in Fairfax. The Eureka to Redding trail stewardship/advocacy organizations have been holding Singletrack Summits for four years now. CAMTB has visited those events for the last couple of years and BTCEB’s…

Are you a Basementeer at Sports Basement? Sports Basement’s membership program offers members 10% off of every item you buy, and they donate 10% of the profits from your purchases to the charity of your choice. BTCEB is a recipient of donations from this program, and it’s easy to…

Alameda-Tesla Classification & General Plan In case you haven’t heard of it yet, Alameda-Tesla is a California State Parks property in eastern Alameda Country directly adjacent to Carnegie OHV SRA, and it’s currently going through the Classification and General Plan creation process. As part of that process, California State…