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Project Background Sly Park Recreation Area Master Plan 1.01.0 PROJECT BACKGROUND Manage operation and maintenance practices 1.1 PURPOSE and costs, The Sly Park Recreation Area (SPRA) is located Mitigate and reduce user conflicts, in the central part of El Dorado County 17 miles east of Placerville and 4 miles south of Pollock Ensure public safety, Pines. SPRA provides diverse recreation Protect cultural and historical resources, opportunities for the surrounding region, including camping, hiking, biking, swimming, Protect and enhance natural resources, fishing, horseback riding, boating and related Work within environmental constraints, and water sports, and access to historical sites. The 1,660-acre SPRA site encompasses Jenkinson Respect private property rights. Lake, which is formed by Sly Park Dam. At The process for developing this Master Plan was 3,600 feet in elevation, Jenkinson Lake is one of designed to concurrently address these objectives the closest and most accessible mountain lakes to while engaging the public, building consensus the Sacramento metropolitan area. among the diverse park visitor groups, and The previous SPRA master planning effort was integrating environmental considerations as completed in 1976 when the park was still owned described under CEQA. by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (EARP, 1976). The 2003 transfer of ownership from the 1.2 PROJECT ISSUES U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to the El Dorado A number of issues related to management and Irrigation District (EID) created the impetus for operations of Sly Park Recreation Area were the current Master Plan effort. This Master Plan identified prior to and during preparation of this will provide EID with guidance for developing, Master Plan. These issues, which have helped to redeveloping, maintaining, and managing the define the focus and scope of the planning effort, recreation facility for the next 20 years. An are summarized below. associated Environmental Impact Report (EIR) has been prepared to meet the requirements of the Environmental Impacts California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). SPRA provides a popular array of outdoor An important function of this Master Plan is to recreation opportunities and attracts visitors from provide a vision which balances multiple local as well as regional markets. Use of the park recreation and resource values that are sometimes tends to be heavily focused on the summer in conflict. These include: season, especially on weekends. Visitors to the park come primarily for the experience of Preserve water quality, recreating in the beautiful natural surroundings, Enhance opportunities for quality recreation, but their continued use of the park over time has resulted in degradation of these resources. While Generate revenue and work within fiscal staff has worked very hard to manage visitation in constraints, a way that prevents negative impacts to the park’s resources, financial constraints have seriously 1.0 PROJECT BACKGROUND 13 Sly Park Recreation Area Admin Draft Master Plan limited the number of staff available for this Lakeside Uses purpose. These impacts include damage to Jenkinson Lake is the focal point of the Sly Park vegetation in and around campgrounds, soil Recreation Area and the overall recreation compaction, and erosion on steep slopes experience. Boating, fishing, swimming, hiking, especially adjacent to creeks and along the picnicking, play, and relaxation on the lakeshore lakeshore. These adverse impacts are problematic are activities that draw large numbers of users to not only because they reduce the scenic quality of the lake. As a result, there is a need for better the park, but also because they have the potential access management, including trail renovation, to threaten the high quality of water in Jenkinson reorganized lakeside picnic and day use areas, Lake if left unmanaged. appropriate access to the shore, and methods for Operations and Management reducing shoreline erosion. The level of staffing at SPRA has not kept pace Marina Operations with user demand for recreation services due to a A significant latent demand for access to lack of financial resources. As a result, facility Jenkinson Lake for boating was identified before maintenance has been deferred and the overall this Master Plan process was started. Although no quality of the park is suffering. Personnel are not Marina expansion has been proposed, a grant always available to provide the level of visitor from the California Department of Boating & management and oversight that is needed to Waterways has been conditionally approved to assure a safe and enjoyable recreation experience. partially fund construction of a new boat trailer In spite of this situation, park staff is extremely parking facility to provide additional parking and dedicated to keeping the park clean and running improved circulation at the Marina. as smoothly as possible with limited resources, and their efforts are much appreciated by visitors. Another limitation on motorized boating on the lake is the need to manage noise levels to prevent The demand for park resources is high during the disturbance of area residents and other park summer months, but the park fee revenues visitors. Park staff has suggested that expanding generated during this period have not been rentals of non-motorized boats, kayaks, and other adequate to fund additional staff and facility water flotation devices could provide additional maintenance, much less new facility revenue and more access to the lake without development. A phased approach to any facility increasing the noise levels. If such rentals are to improvements will be necessary in order to keep be provided, storage and possibly parking will park fees as low as possible while still have to be developed at the Marina and/or the accomplishing required work. Some capital Stonebraker boat rental area. improvements can be funded by grants, but operational and maintenance costs for such Day Use improvements are typically not covered by grants. The primary day use attractions are the lake and Grants may also require matching funds. The related activities, hiking, biking, and equestrian future of SPRA is dependent on EID’s ability to trails. Day users are generally from the local secure significant additional funding through a region and many visit the park on a somewhat variety of reliable and recurring sources. regular basis. Some of these people tend to regard SPRA as the equivalent of a local neighborhood park since it is the recreational facility they live 1.0 PROJECT BACKGROUND 14 Sly Park Recreation Area Admin Draft Master Plan closest to and use most frequently. Any proposed Part of the success of camping at SPRA has modifications to park facilities or operations must historically been attributed to the variety of be sensitive to and preserve the interests of local campgrounds provided throughout park as well as residents. For this reason, the Master Plan public the quality of campsites. Maintaining campsite outreach process emphasized local participation quality and possibly expanding the range of and actively sought local residents’ comments on camping options were identified as important proposed changes or modifications to the day use concerns for the Master Plan to address. Issues areas (as well as all park facilities.) related to the various types of camping options are described below. The lack of adequate and properly designated day use area parking is another critical issue. This Individual Campsites situation causes safety and environmental Over time, many of the individual campsite concerns, as visitors sometimes park vehicles in boundaries have become undefined. This lack of places that create potential traffic hazards or spatial definition reduces the sense of privacy, damage vegetation. can contribute to user conflicts, and can result in Camping expanded areas of compacted soils and trampled or destroyed vegetation. Needed improvements Campers who visit SPRA are from both the local include redefining circulation patterns, defining area and the greater Central Valley and Bay Area campsites using natural, on-site materials, and region, and represent a diversity of age groups, developing a restoration/revegetation approach cultural backgrounds, and recreation preferences. for areas where erosion from overuse is While this user diversity is a strong indicator of occurring. the attractiveness of SPRA camping options to a broad market, it also presents many management Group Campsites and planning challenges. These include the need Group campsites are in high demand for annual for adequate staff to oversee campground family and friends gatherings, as well as special operations, manage user conflicts, and preserve events. They provide a regular income for SPRA campground and environmental quality. Major operations. However, group campers also tend to issues identified prior to the start of this Master contribute significantly to noise levels, resulting Plan were the inability of staff, at current staffing in complaints from and conflicts with other levels, to adequately manage campground use; campers. seasonal demand that routinely exceeds the park’s campground capacity; and concerns about the The physical impacts of group camping are resultant degradation of the quality of the greater on a site due to a greater density of users camping experience. Preserving SPRA’s natural within a limited space. Solutions to group site character, which has proven to be such a issues are similar to those for individual successful
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