CALIFORNIA TRAIL CORRIDORS
California has recognized 26 different trail corridors
as part of the Recreational Trail Act.
American Discovery Trail - Backbone Trail - Mokelumne
Coast to Crest Trail -
Pacific Crest Trail - Rim
of the Valley Trail - San Dieguito River Park
Coast to Crest Trail -
San Francisco Bay Trail - San
Joaquin River Trail - Juan Bautista de
Anza Historic Trail -
Lake Tahoe Bikeway 2000 - Bay Area Ridge Trail - Redwood
Coast to Crest -
Tahoe Rim Trail - Pony Express National Historic
Trail -Tuolumne Complex Trail -
Pacific Coast/California
Coastal Trail - Merced River Trail - Questa
to Sespe Trail -
Condor Trail - Santa
Clara River Trail - Lario (Los Angeles-Rio Hondo Rivers) Trail -
San
Gabriel River Trail - Whittier to Ortega Trail - Santa
Ana River Trail -
Trans County Trail - California
Desert Trail
| Name of Trail | Contact | Location, Jurisdictions and Partnerships | Trail Type, Length and % Complete | Short Description |
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| American Discovery Trail | American Discovery Trail Society PO Box 20155 Washington DC 20041-2155 (800) 663-2387 or (703)753- 0149 Info@DiscoveryTrail.org www.discoverytrail.org/index.html |
Across 15 US states--In CA, uses Tahoe Rim, Western States, Pacific
Crest, Pioneer Express Trails and the American River Bikeway. |
Multi-use, patchwork of existing trails and paved roads. Stretching
across more than 6,800 miles, the ADT is the only coast-to-coast, non motorized recreational trail. |
Linking communities, cities, parks and wilderness, the ADT allows people to hike, bike or ride horses for an afternoon or a cross-country adventure. |
| Backbone Trail | National Park Service 401 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 805-370-2301 www.nps.gov/samo/planyourvisit/.. |
NPS--Santa Monica Mountains State Recreation Area. CSP--Will Rogers State Park and Point Mugu State Park | Multi-use patchwork of fire roads, old and new trails. 60 of 65 miles completed. | |
| Mokelumne Coast to Crest Trail | The Mokelumne Coast to Crest Trail PO Box 744, Pioneer
CA 95666, info@mc2ct.org, moke-trail@earthlink.net - www.mc2ct.org |
San Francisco Bay to Pacific Crest Trail in Sierras. East Bay Regional Parks, East Bay Municipal Utilities District. CSP--Mt. Diablo State Park. Stanislaus National Forest. | Multi-use. 87 miles of 300 planned completed. Patchwork of existing
trails. Portion in San Joaquin will be a water trail. |
Trail consists
of 5 segments divided by geographic and jurisdictional features: East
Bay Contra Costa, Delta, Camanche/Pardee, Middle Mokelumne, Upper Mokelumne Segments. |
| Pacific Crest Trail | Pacific Crest Trail Association 5325 Elkhorn Blvd., PMB #256 Sacramento, CA 95842-2526 Phone: (916) 349-2109 Fax: (916) 349-1268 info@pcta.org www.pcta.org US Forest Service www.fs.fed.us/pct |
Mexico to Canada. USFS, BLM, NPS, CA State Parks | Non-motorized, hiking and equestrian. No bikes. Predominantly dirt trails, occasionally crosses highways and paved roads. Some use of easements on private property. 1,692 miles completed. | National Scenic trail, mostly along the spine of the Sierra Nevadas
and the Cascade Mountains in the Northwest, stretches from Mexico to Canada. |
| Rim of the Valley Trail | Mary Benson c-maryb@msn.com | Mountain ridges around San Fernando Valley. See PRC 33200-33215 | Utilizes existing trail systems | |
| San Dieguito River Park Coast to Crest Trail | The San Dieguito River Park 18372 Sycamore Creek Rd. Escondido, CA
92025 Phone: (858) 674-2270 Fax: (858) 674-2280 jason@sdrp.org www.sdrp.org/trails |
San Diego County. The San Dieguito River Valley Regional Open Space
Park Joint Powers Authority. County of San Diego and the Cities of Del Mar, Escondido, Poway, San Diego and Solana Beach. |
Multi-use, motorized vehicles prohibited. 55 miles planned, some
completed. Specific trail alignments will be defined as area master plans are completed, or as funding becomes available for individual segments. Some are non-contiguous. |
The San Dieguito River Park goal is to create a multi-use trail system
for hikers, bicyclists and horseback riders that will extend from the ocean at Del Mar to the San Dieguito River's source on Volcan Mountain, just north of Julian. Trail is made up of the following sectors: Coast to Crest, Piedras Pintadas, Highland Valley, North Shore, Crest Canyon, Clevenger Canyon, Mule Hill, Riverpath Del Mar, Volcan Mountain, Santa Ysabel. |
| San Francisco Bay Trail | Association of Bay Area Governments, 101 Eighth
St. Oakland CA 94607 Phone (510)464-7900 www.baytrail.abag.ca.gov laurat@abag.ca.gov |
CA, Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa,
San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma. Cities of Alameda, Albany, American Canyon, Belmont, Belvedere, Benicia, Berkeley, Brisbane, Burlingame, Corte Madera, East Palo Alto, Emeryville, Foster City, Fremont, Hayward, Hercules, Larkspur, Martinez, Menlo Park, Mill Valley, Millbrae, Milpitas, Mountain View, Napa, Newark, Novato, Oakland, Palo Alto, Pinole, Redwood City, Richmond, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Francisco, San Jose, San Leandro, San Mateo, San Pablo, San Rafael, Santa Clara, Sausalito, Sonoma, South San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Tiburon, Union City and Vallejo. Utilities, private ownerships. PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE SECTION 31160-31165 |
Consists of paved multi-use paths, dirt trails,
bike lanes, sidewalks or city streets signed as bike routes. The
Bay Trail also connects to trails that lead inland, and with the Ridge Trail. 240 miles completed (50%). |
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| San Joaquin River Trail | San Joaquin River Conservancy www.sjrc.ca.gov 5469 East Olive Avenue Fresno, CA 93727 Phone (559) 253-7324 Fax (559) 456-3194 US Dept of the Interior Bureau of Land Management www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/... Bakersfield Field Office 3801 Pegasus Drive Bakersfield, CA 93308 Phone Number: (661) 391-6000 |
San Joaquin River in Madera and San Joaquin counties. North of Fresno. | The San Joaquin River Trail bridge at Big Sandy Creek, within the
Millerton Lake State Recreation Area has been installed and is open for use. This bridge links the San Joaquin River Gorge trail system to the State Parks’ trail system. From the BLM trailhead to Sky Harbor is approximately 14 trail miles. |
When completed the San Joaquin River Trail will connect Highway 99 to the Pacific Crest Trail near the Devils Postpile National Monument. Portions of the trail cover prehistoric trade routes of the Mono Indians. |
| Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail |
U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service 1111 Jackson Street, Suite 700 Oakland, California 94607 Tel. 510-817-1438 Fax 510-817-1505 www.nps.gov/juba/index.htm |
In CA--14 coastal counties from northern to southern parts of the
state. In AZ--14
counties in western AZ. NPS, USFS, BLM, CSP, California Army National Guard, San Juan Bautista Chamber of Commerce, East Bay Regional Parks District, Los Angeles River Center and Gardens, and the City of Atascadero. |
Heritage Corridor theme trail that traces route of Spanish explorer.
900 mile route in CA and AZ. Only 80 miles
is actually trail, the rest is paved or dirt roads identified as "Auto Tour Route" with signs. Complete auto-route. |
Commemorates the route of explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. Large amount of historical interpretive information provided by NPS at their website. |
| Lake Tahoe Bikeway 2000 |
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Phone number: (775) 588-4547 Fax: (775) 588-4527 Mailing Address: PO Box 5310, Stateline, NV 89449 www.trpa.org trpa@trpa.org |
The responsible implementingentities are the City of South Lake Tahoe,
El Dorado County, Placer County, Caltrans, NDOT, Douglas County, Carson
City, Washoe County, California State Parks, Nevada Division of State
Parks, United States Forest Service, Tahoe City Public Utility District, North Tahoe Public Utility District, Tahoe Transportation District, and General Improvement Districts. |
Most pedestrian facilities of regional significance are Class I /
Shared Use Paths
that accommodate both bicycle and pedestrian travel. The current system has limited facilities concentrated in the north shore communities of Tahoe City, CA; Kings Beach, CA; and Incline Village, NV and the south shore communities of South Lake Tahoe, CA; and Stateline, NV. |
Goal: Provide safer and more efficient bicycle facilities in the Lake Tahoe Basin that create a positive experience for residents and visitors. |
| Bay Area Ridge Trail |
Bay Area Ridge Trail Council 1007 General Kennedy Avenue, Suite 3 San Francisco, CA 94129-1405 Phone 415-561-2595 Fax 415-561-2599 Janet McBride, Executive Director info@ridgetrail.org www.ridgetrail.org/index.cfm |
Ridges surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. East
Bay Regional Parks, East Bay Municipal Utilities District. Volunteers
lead the effort to build the Bay Area Ridge Trail, working county-by-county
to
add new segments of the trail and leveraging and supporting the work of state and regional parks and open space groups. |
Multi-use trail for mountain bicyclists, equestrians, and hikers/trail
runners. Today 30-50% of the trail is fully multi-use. Approximately 60% completed (300 of 500 miles.) |
Uses existing trails and seeks easements on private lands to create a contiguous trail system. |
| Redwood Coast to Crest |
Steve Fisher, Redwood National & State Parks | Redwood National & State Parks and Redwood Coast | ||
| Tahoe Rim Trail |
Tahoe Rim Trail Association DWR Community Non Profit Center 948 Incline WayIncline Village, NV 89451 Phone (775)298-0012 Fax (775)298-0013 info@tahoerimtrail.org www.tahoerimtrail.org/index.html |
The trail encompasses the ridge tops of the Lake Tahoe Basin, crossing six counties in CA and NV. US Forest Service | 165-mile, twenty-four inch, single track trail is
open to hiking, equestrians, and mountain biking (in most areas).
100% complete. |
The Tahoe Rim Trail overlaps with approximately fifty miles of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. |
| Pony Express National Historic Trail |
www.nps.gov/poex | California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Missouri,
Kansas. As an administrating agency with no management authority
for the |
Heritage Corridor. Auto tour route. In California, the trail is about 140 miles long, including the Luther Pass-Woodfords branch. There is about 25 miles of marked trail in the El Dorado National Forest. | Through CA, the Pony Express Trail runs along the Highway 50 corridor
from Sacramento to the Nevada border. The trail follows the route of the historic Pony Express in 1860-61. |
| Tuolumne Complex Trail | Central Valley to the crest of the Sierra in Tuolumne and Stanislaus
counties. US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and California State Parks. |
The central corridor is 100 miles long and about 35% completed. | ||
| Pacific Coast/California Coastal Trail |
Coastwalk 825 Gravenstein Hwy North #8, Sebastopol, CA 95472. 707-829-6689 - 1-800-550-6854 FAX 707-829-0326 jsicaud@coastwalk.org California Coastal Conservancy coastaltrail@scc.ca.gov www.californiacoastaltrail.info/... |
California Coastline. Coastwalk is a volunteer organization that advocates for completion of the Trail. | 1,200 miles planned, 50% Complete. The California Coastal Trail (CCT)
is a network of public trails for walkers, bikers, equestrians, wheelchair riders and others along the entire California coastline. |
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| Merced River Trail | ||||
| Questa to Sespe Trail | Kerry Kellogg, US Forest Service'kkellogg@fs.fed.us | Los Padres National Forest | Dirt roads and trails. | |
| Condor Trail | Kerry Kellogg, US Forest Service kkellogg@fs.fed.us | Los Padres National Forest | Dirt roads and trails. | |
| Santa Clara River Trail | California State Coastal Conservancy, www.santaclarariverparkway.org/... | Trail goes from Lynwood to Long Beach | ||
| Lario (Los Angeles-Rio Hondo Rivers) Trail |
Los Angeles County Departments of Public Works and Parks and Recreation www.dpw.lacounty.gov/wmd/... |
Los Angeles County Public Works and Recreation Dept. | The LARIO Trail system is comprised of 22 miles of bike and equestrian trails along the Los Angeles and Rio Hondo Channel. | The Trail begins near the Whittier Narrows Dam, continues along the
Rio Hondo Channel until its confluence with the River, then runs along the River to the Pacific Ocean. The LARIO Trail provides connections to seven parks adjacent to the Los Angeles River and Rio Hondo Channel. |
| San Gabriel River Trail | ||||
| Whittier to Ortega Trail | ||||
| Santa Ana River Trail |
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority 11615 Sterling Avenue Riverside, California 92503 (951) 354-4220 www.sawpa.org/projects/plan... |
Counties of Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino. Cities of Riverside, Corona, Norco... | Unpaved at higher elevations, paved biking and walking path in lower portion with equestrian trails often separate. Draft project schedule calls for the Riverside County portion of the Trail to be completed in five years. In Riverside County the Trail is generally complete from the San Bernardino County line to the western boundary of the Hidden Valley Wildlife Area, very close to the Norco city limits. | Trail is planned to run from the Pacific ocean to the Pacific Crest Trail in San Bernardino County. |
| Trans County Trail |
Sea to Sea Trail Foundation PO Box 16130 San Diego, CA 92176, USA Phone: +1 (619) 303 6975 Fax: +1 (619) 303 6965 contact@seatoseatrail.org www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/... |
Pacific Ocean in San Diego to Salton Sea. | Multi-use, existing trails and paved roads. the Trans-County Trail will be approximately 110 miles in length. Nearly 70% of this route utilizes existing trails which are already open for public use. In other areas the route still needs to be acquired or the trail built. | Traversing San Diego County from the desert, over the mountains, and down valleys to the coastal bluffs. |
| California Desert Trail |
Desert Trail Association PO Box 34 Madras, Oregon 97741 dta@madras.net www.madras.net/~dta/dtainfo.htm |
Desert Trail Association. The DTA was organized to
promote a continuing desert trail from the Canadian to the Mexican
Border. State agencies in California, Nevada and Oregon have incorporated this concept into their trail systems. Federal Agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, The US Forest Service, The National Park Service and the Bureau of Fish and Wildlife have been actively assisting. |
Dirt trail, existing roads | |
Regional Trails listed in Appendix B of the California Recreational Trails Plan, Phase 1, 2002
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