Trails
They don’t build themselves.
Our Philosophy
Trail work is sweat equity. It’s fun, rewarding, a great workout, and it helps assure continuing trail access for mountain bikes. BTCEB trail crews are active in Joaquin Miller Park, Crockett Hills Regional Park, and at the Oakland Pump Track, along with various EBRPD parks, John Muir Land Trust properties, Dirt World in Richmond, and other opportunities in our area.
Volunteer work crews help us keep trails in great shape, and show how important mountain biking is to the health of our parks. We sponsor work days where you can volunteer to help keep your favorite spot’s trails clean and flowing while reducing trail conflicts. Check out our Meetup group.
Our Trail Stewardship program gives folks with knowledge of their local park the opportunity to take leadership on efforts to maintain and develop trails there. Lead Stewards help keep track of trail maintenance needs and help to plan, coordinate, and set up trail work days. Additionally, they can help build a positive working relationship with the local park supervisor and other land manager staff members. If you are interested in becoming a Lead Steward in a particular park email our Trails Director.
Subscribe to the Buzz or keep an eye on our Meetup if you’d like to give back to the trails. If you want to get on an email notification list for upcoming work events, subscribe here or if you are a BTCEB member, login to your member portal and sign up.
Upcoming trail work days
Crockett Hills trail (Sign Up at Ridge Trail link inside)
Trail News
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Win Your Dream Ibis Bike!
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Recent trail work on Cinderella Trail
Recent trail work on Cinderella Trail On Sunday, May 9, an enthusiastic group assembled on a perfect sunny day to do trail maintenance on Cinderella Trail in Joaquin Miller Park. The day’s tasks included cutting back vegetation — which inevitably includes poison oak — and moving dirt to improve…
Hardening Up Sugar City
Hardening Up Sugar City This spring BTCEB volunteers completed an upgrade of the hardening on the upper start of the Sugar City trail at Crockett Hills Regional Park. A chronically wet area due to a seasonal seep had been rock hardened a couple of seasons ago. That rock hardening…
From the Interwebs: Singletracks Podcast talks to Jeff Cayley of Trail One Components
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Trail workday at Fernandez Ranch
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To Reroute or Not to Reroute
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25 Years of the Oakland Bike Patrol
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What’s In Your Pack?
What’s In Your Pack? Just a little different, not completely different … Here’s the third in what is now officially a series of “What’s In Your Pack?” articles. It’s not completely different than Rebecca’s pack contents and not quite as extensively dedicated to trail work as Scott’s pack contents,…