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• BTCEB Donates Over $6,000 to Community Trail Orgs in 2022
• Lime Ridge Flow Trail — Get Involved!
• RESCHEDULED: Gala Ride at Mt Tam Watershed to Jan 7, 2023
• Call for BTCEB Board of Director Candidates!
• BTCEB 2022 Donations to Local Youth Teams
• EBRPD Trail Study Session Update
• Mount Diablo State Park – Roads and Trails Master…

You may have seen our pleas the last few months but we are STILL looking for passionate individuals interested in mountain biking that want to give back to the sport, community, and lands that that we all love. Does that sound like you?  Would you like to be part…

Mount Diablo Trails Alliance 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 supervisor and park staff.  Mount Diablo Trails Alliance…

Upcoming Trailwork Days

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…

• BTCEB Donates Over $6,000 to Community Trail Orgs in 2022
• Lime Ridge Flow Trail — Get Involved!
• RESCHEDULED: Gala Ride at Mt Tam Watershed to Jan 7, 2023
• Call for BTCEB Board of Director Candidates!
• BTCEB 2022 Donations to Local Youth Teams
• EBRPD Trail Study Session Update
• Mount Diablo State Park – Roads and Trails Master…

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…