The Pacific Crest Trail a Successful Public-Private Partnership

Pacific Crest Trail Association The Pacific Crest Trail A Successful Public-Private Partnership

1. The U.S. Forest Service has overall responsibility for the PCT. 2. Operational responsibility is shared with:

N National Park Service A IL TI A Bureau of Land Management ON TR AL SCENIC Several state and county parks

3. The nonprofitPacific Crest Trail Association is the major private partner of the federal government and California State Parks as codified in a Memorandum of Understanding with these agencies.

4. The PCTA leverages limited federal dollars through the extensive use of volunteers and private donations to ensure the PCT is protected, preserved and promoted as an internationally significant resource for the enjoyment of trail users, and for the value that wild and scenic lands provide to all people.

The Pacific Crest Trail Association Contribution Our private/public partnership continues to produce outstanding results in the spirit of citizen stewardship as sought by Congress in the 1968 National Trails System Act. • Volunteer hours are regularly a significant contribution. • Six PCTA Regional Representatives cover all 2,650 miles of the PCT and provide volunteer support through local offices. • Volunteers have access to trail project information, training, tools and supplies. • PCTA continues to raise a significant amount of private funds. PCT Volunteer Hours: 2010 - 2019 Hours and Funds Contributed

2019 130K

Volunteer Hours: 106,444 136,155 Value of Volunteer Hours: $2.7 million 120K Private Dollars Raised: $3.1 million Total PCTA Contribution: $5.8 million 110K 118,524 118,450

10-Year Total 100K 106,444

Volunteer hours 1,036,499 104,269 Value of Volunteer Hours: $24.2 million 90K 96,481 96,552 86,231 92,416

Private Dollars Raised: $15.9 million 81,836 Total PCTA Contribution: $40.1 million 80K

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

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I. Capital Improvement & Maintenance - Trails (CMTL) $2.5 million

$2.5 million—allocation for PCT in the USFS Region 5 CMTL account to fund the following ongoing programs: • Adequate Forest Service trailwide management staff • Forest/Project Planning and optimal trail location reviews • Challenge Cost Share Agreement with the PCTA and other private partners to support volunteer trail maintenance and public education programs • Trail maintenance, construction, reconstruction • Trail information for trail users, including Leave No Trace, permit applications and other educational materials • Trail management and operations • Youth and Corps trail crew programs

II. Trail Maintenance $500,000

National Park Service (NPS) Budget Request: $200,000 • Line item for PCT maintenance on NPS lands Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Budget Request: $300,000 • Line item for PCT maintenance on BLM lands

The Pacific Crest Trail in Washington’s North Cascade Range..

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Capital Improvement & Maintenance - Trails (CMTL) USFS: $2.5 million CMTL Request: Allocate $2.5 million for the PCT in the USFS CMTL-PC line item to fund the following ongoing programs in USFS Regions 4, 5 and 6:

• Adequate Forest Service trailwide management staff • Forest/Project Planning and optimal trail location reviews • Challenge Cost Share Agreement with the PCTA and other private partners to support volunteer trail maintenance and public education programs • Trail maintenance, construction, reconstruction • Trail information for trail users, including Leave No Trace, permit applications and other educational materials • Trail management and operations • Youth and Corps trail crew programs

NEED: Every year, the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA) sees a rising threat to public access—insufficient funding to maintain and reconstruct trails for a variety of users. Easy access to public lands through safe and well-maintained trails drives a considerable recreation economy. The economic impacts of trails can be seen in small, rural communities surrounding our nation’s popular national forests and parks. And outdoor retailers do a booming business supplying enthusiasts for a variety of outdoor pursuits. This economic benefit is not unique to the PCT, and the PCTA urges an overall increase in the entire USFS CMTL budget, especially as it funds work on all the National Scenic and Historic Trails. Funding Shortfall: On the PCT, federal funding in past fiscal years has been far below what’s needed to keep the trail safe and passable for the public or to respond to disasters such as landslides, washouts, and wildfires. This results in a maintenance backlog that grows each year and reduced access to public lands. • Public interest in the PCT is at an all-time high. • Increased use brings more user impacts to the trail, which must be addressed through education and maintenance. In 2012, the U.S. Government Accounting Office suggested that enhanced training and collaboration with volunteer groups was a good way to reduce the maintenance backlog. Year after year, dedicated PCTA volunteers rebuild washed-out bridges, cut away fallen trees and restore eroded portions of the trail. In 2019, PCTA volunteers and corps crews maintained 1,605 miles of the PCT and built or rebuilt 35 miles. With more robust and sustainable federal funding, we would be able to do much more. Hikers and horseback riders will tell you that the PCT is one of the finest wilderness trail experiences in existence. We don’t want to lose that.

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Capital Improvement & Maintenance - Trails (CMTL) - continued

Our volunteers cannot be successful without government support. Volunteers need tools, training classes, food and transportation so their efforts are most effective and will do the most good. We partner with the Forest Service to purchase materials for bridge repairs, plan work projects effectively and otherwise ensure that the PCT continues to be a world-class trail for the hundreds of thousands of users who expect to go out and enjoy it.

Each year, the Pacific Crest Trail Association raises significant private funding. Federal support of the PCTA triggers its ability to raise more private money to energize volunteers. We urge Congress to support this reasonable appropriation for the Forest Service to dedicate to PCT maintenance. Programs administered within this budget are programs that “give back” to youths, to rural communities and to the general public.

The youth corps and volunteers learn skills in forestry and trail maintenance and gain experience in cooperation and leadership. Jobs are created in rural areas, while visitors from all over the world spend their recreation and tourism dollars in communities along the trail. At the same time, the ongoing work of keeping the trail accessible is achieved. These programs represent what can be accomplished when people work across boundaries toward a common goal.

Trail Maintenance—NPS and BLM: $500,000 PCT Maintenance Request:

• $200,000 to the National Park Service • $300,000 to the Bureau of Land Management

NEED: This appropriation is necessary to meet the demand for federal agency direct work and coordination of volunteer crews that maintain and repair the PCT in five National Parks, one National Monument, and several BLM field offices on more than 600 miles of the PCT.

PROGRESS: Since 2008, PCTA has done work under a long-term Challenge Cost Share Agreement with the BLM, which provides funding for the support of volunteer work projects on BLM lands. PCTA volunteers and staff worked with BLM and local volunteers to perform needed maintenance and repairs in California and Oregon.

During 2019, 2,038 volunteers, in cooperation with federal agency and private partners, donated 106,444 hours of service to the PCTA.

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Youth Trail Crew Programs

Environmental Charter High School Students from Los Angeles prepare for a day’s work on the PCT near Cajon Pass, CA

Pacific Crest Trail Association’s youth programs play an important role for the future of the Pacific Crest Trail. Through these programs, the PCTA helps introduce the great outdoors to young people who will one day be there as its stewards while teaching them practical leadership skills and a work ethic that will serve them throughout their lives. These crews often are paired with PCTA volunteers, exposing them to the ethic of giving their time in benefit to their community. They take on both large and small trail maintenance and improvement projects, from clearing short storm-affected sections to building new long stretches of realigned trail.

Environmental Charter Schools • Since 2007, these award-winning middle and high schools in inner-city Los Angeles have worked with economically disadvantaged youths who volunteer on the PCT. • Prepares students for four-year colleges using the environment as a lens for real-life learning. • Strengthens student understanding and application of environmental practices through sustainability-minded coursework, service learning, internships and capstone projects related to social or environmental issues. • In 2019, Environmental Charter school students contributed 857 service hours to the PCT.

American Conservation Experience (ACE) • Provides jobs and job training for 18- to 25-year-olds considering land management as a career path or course of study. • Professionally supervised teams learn practical skills and develop confidence as emerging leaders in conservation. • Participants gain invaluable career perspectives working alongside professionals with the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and many other public land stewards. • In 2019, ACE crews contributed 14,400 service hours to the PCT.

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Youth Trail Crew Programs - continued New Currents • Builds land management and leadership skills in youths. • Since 2014, New Currents, Outdoors in Portland, Oregon, has worked to get urban youths ages 12 to 17 involved in environmental education, hiking, camping, and recreating on public lands. • 21 youths from Vancouver, Washington, contributed more than 320 hours in the Mount Hood National Forest reconditioning 1.75 miles of trail and repairing drainage features to make the trail sustainable

Outward Bound • Nonprofit that provides challenging learning expeditions that inspire strength of character, leadership and service to others. • 37 youths contributed 750 hours of trail work on the PCT in the Willamette, Deschutes and Mount Hood national forests.

Washington Conservation Corps • Three crews contributed 1,280 hours doing trail restoration work in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanogan-Wenatchee national forests.

California Conservation Corps

• A crew contributed 530 hours into trail maintenance near Mount Eddy in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

William S. Hart Unified School District Trails Program

• 31 students contributed 678 hours in the Angeles National Forest.

Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship An American Conservation Experience crew on the PCT in Northern California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest. • A crew of 10 contributed 800 hours in the Tahoe National Forest.

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The PCTA Supports a Fully Funded Land and Water Conservation Fund

Hikers on the PCT in Northern California’s Trinity Divide. Since 1965, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has been a bipartisan commitment to safeguard natural areas, water resources and our cultural heritage, and to provide recreation opportunities to all Americans. For more than five decades, the LWCF has protected national parks and open spaces in every corner of the United States.

Created by Congress, the LWCF has invested millions over the past five decades to protect the nation’s iconic outdoor places, open access for hunting, fishing, hiking, and other outdoor activities, and build close-to-home parks. National Parks such as Rocky Mountain, the Grand Canyon and the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, trails and ball fields in all 50 states were set aside for Americans to enjoy thanks to federal funds from the LWCF. All this is done without taxpayer money. Funds come from the lease payments on offshore oil exploration.

The PCTA and its supporters appreciate that Congress reauthorized the LWCF in 2019 and increased the annual amount the fund received in FY2020 to the highest level in years.

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The PCTA Supports a Fully Funded Land and Water Conservation Fund - continued

We now urge Congress to take the next step on behalf of the PCT, the National Trails System, public lands and the American public and FULLY fund the LWCF at $900 million annually as prescribed by Congress when it created the program in 1965.

Pacific Crest Trail The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail (PCT) attracts hikers and horseback riders from around the world and runs through some of the nation’s most awe-inspiring landscapes including the North Cascades National Park in Washington, Crater Lake National Park in Oregon and Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada of Califor- nia.

• Over the past 18 years, the LWCF has provided nearly $46 million to acquire and permanently protect just over 33,000 acres along the PCT.

But there are still many private properties on and near the PCT for sale. Without permanent protection, they could be developed. LWCF has made progress in protecting some key corridors along the trail on what was a checkerboard of national forest and private timberland properties, but more needs to be done. The PCTA is raising private money and working with many nonprofit and government partners to protect the last parcels of private land along the trail.

LWCF is vital to the PCTA’s effort to protect the last 10 percent of the trail that remains on private property.

Economic Impact America’s $887 billion outdoor recreation industry is an economic powerhouse—supporting 7.6 million jobs and producing $65.3 billion in federal tax revenue and $59.2 billion in state and local tax revenue each year. The LWCF directly supports the outdoor recreation industry, preserving key places for residents to play, seek refuge and learn about our natural and cultural heritage.

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View from one of 17 permanently protected miles of the Pacific Crest Trail in the Trinity Divide in Northern California.

or most of the 2,650 miles of the PCT from Mexico to Canada, you can experience some of the most Fsublime outdoor scenery in the world. But in far too many spots along the way, this experience is being threatened by development, resource extraction, inappropriate barriers, and unsafe road walks.

Fifty-two years after the 1968 Congressional designation of the PCT as one of the first National Scenic Trails, it is still not completely protected. Approximately 10 percent of the trail remains on private land with little in place to help protect the trail experience for future generations.

The PCT’s land acquisition program works with willing sellers to conserve land along the entire 2,650 miles of the trail to protect the trail experience, enhance recreational access to our public lands, protect habitat for sensitive species, and secure critical watersheds. While federal agencies take the lead role in acquiring lands to permanently protect the PCT, they also rely heavily on the valued assistance of private, nonprofit partners.

Our 2019 land acquisition on the Trinity Divide in Northern California is a prime example of this public- private partnership in action. This acquisition protects 17 miles of the PCT and was accomplished through the combined work of the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Crest Trail Association, Michigan-California Timber Company, The Trust for Public Land and the Wyss Foundation. The Forest Service recognized the efforts with a Partnership of the Year Award during the Regional Forester’s Honor Awards.

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The PCTA Supports H.R.2435: The Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act

Jonathan Grant served as a U.S. Navy SEAL for 20 years, deploying to Central and South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. Trails Provide Wounded Warriors with a Safe Space for Healing and Recovery After Combat America’s veterans deserve the best care possible as they recover from their war wounds and the anguish they may feel after combat. Connecting veterans with the outdoors is a proven form of treatment. But there has yet to be a coordinated effort within the federal government to connect veterans with public lands. The Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act would create an interagency task force co-chaired by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior. The task force would be responsible for identifying barriers to efficiently using public lands for the treatment of veterans under the care of the VA. Additionally, the task force would provide Congress with recommendations on removing those barriers. Background In 1948, combat veteran Earl Shaffer told a friend he was going to “walk off the war” to work out the sights, sounds, and losses of World War II. Four months later, Shaffer became the first person to hike the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

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Since 2001, more than 2.5 million veterans have returned home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Veteran Affairs estimates that more than 20 percent suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Benefits of Outdoor Therapy Warrior Expeditions is a nonprofit outdoor therapy program that helps veterans transition from their wartime experiences through long journeys on National Scenic Trails such as the Pacific Crest Trail. The mental healing that occurs epitomizes the importance of public lands for the nation’s combat veterans. Similar transformations happen for millions of people who are not veterans. Results

Warrior Expeditions veterans have reported significant improvements in their physical, mental, and social well-being during and after their journeys:

• Decompressing from their military service and coming to terms with their wartime experiences. • Experiencing camaraderie with other veterans who understand the challenges of transitioning back to civilian life. • Interacting with community supporters along the way facilitates their reintegration into society, restores their faith in humanity and builds a network of life-long friendships.

“Like many combat veterans, I’ve experienced and witnessed things that I can never forget and will be with me forever. The PCT’s amazing scenery provided the perfect backdrop for quiet reflection. I thought a lot about family and how I could be a better father and husband. I reflected on past challenges and realized that I need to focus on the here and now to make positive changes in my life. When I crossed High Sierra mountain passes, where words cannot describe the beauty, I felt a level of calmness and satisfaction that I had never felt before.” —Former U.S. Navy SEAL Jonathan Grant

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The PCTA Opposes Forest Service Budget Changes that Erase Accountability and Transparency for National Trails

Volunteers at one of the PCTA’s Trail Skills Colleges in Washington’s North Cascade Range. In 2018, the U.S. Forest Service attempted to eliminate the specific CMTL line items for the individual National Scenic and Historic Trails.

This was a dramatic break with decades of past practice. We believe this showed a weakening of the agency’s commitment to give National Scenic and Historic Trails the money and administrative priority that Congress intended. Background The U.S. Forest Service administers five National Scenic Trails and one National Historic Trail — including the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. It also manages corridor for 17 other National Scenic and Historic Trails that fall within National Forests.

Since 1998, at the behest of Congress, Forest Service budgets have included dedicated Capital Improvement and Maintenance (CMTL) line items for each of these trails. These place holders listed funding amounts in the name of specific trails — CMTL-PC for Pacific Crest Trail, for example — assuring certainty in project planning for field staff and nonprofit partners as well as overall transparency in spending for the National Trails System.

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The PCTA Opposes Forest Service Budget Changes that Erase Accountability and Transparency for National Trails (continued) In 2019, the PCTA and other trail groups voiced our concerns, and Congress responded by including in the FY2020 budget the following notation:

National Scenic and Historic Trails—The Committee directs the Forest Service to continue to provide specific trail operation, maintenance, and construction funding and accomplishment data for the national scenic and historic trails in future budget justifications. The Committee notes that the fiscal year 2020 justification does not propose acquisition funding and directs the Forest Service to provide the Committees an updated estimate of trails and land acquisition not later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act.

We applaud this specific funding directive and urge Congress to continue holding the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service accountable.

Many of these long trails travel through more than one Forest Service Region. Before the Congress recommended dedicated funding, money for trails was left to the regional bureaucracies, and inconsistent administration, management and maintenance were the norm.

The 1968 National Trails System Act called for a system that was managed collaboratively between federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations. And that’s how they are managed today. The Pacific Crest Trail Association works in partnership with the Forest Service to manage the PCT. We marshal volunteers who steward the trail maintenance and protection of the trail while raising private funds to help pay for the bulk of the work done each year.

Shared funding of these projects has been crucial to their development and sustainability. The unpredictability injected into this well-balanced partner arrangement by the 2018 agency decision would be devastating to the nonprofit partners, making it difficult to plan project year-to year, recruit volunteers and raise private money.

We ask Congress to continue holding the U.S. Forest Service Accountable by requiring the agency to retain in its budget the overall CMTL line items and specific sub-items for the individual National Scenic and Historic Trails such as CMTL-PC for the Pacific Crest Trail.

The willingness of the federal government to provide dedicated funding to each trail in the National Trails System is a key factor in motivating private donors to contribute the balance of the funds that keep the trails maintained and managed.

“The PCTA is the reason why the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail is successfully managed. Your success in raising funds for the trail results in leveraging federal dollars three-fold. Even more importantly, your ability to recruit, train and manage volunteers on National Forest System lands resulted in volunteer services equal to $2.6 million in FY18, the highest contribution of all our many partnerships in Region 5.”

—Randy Moore, Regional Forester Pacific Southwest Region (letter to the PCTA February 2019)

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Partnerships with Trail Communities Benefit the PCT and Promote Economic Activity

Community members try a crosscut saw at the PCT Days Festival in Cascade Locks, Oregon.

Towns located near the PCT offer an extraordinary asset to people: gateway access to America’s most wild and scenic trail experience.

Towns along the PCT are reliant upon tourists and the hiking community. Stores, outfitters, restaurants and post offices thrive because of the influx seasonal visitors. While the PCT is primarily a backcountry trail, nearby towns enjoy benefits of hosting backpackers, horseback riders and day-hikers by the thousands.Towns are an important part of the trail user’s experience. Many trail towns act as good friends and neighbors to the trail and the people using it.

The outdoor recreation economy in the United States generates $887 billion in consumer spending and provides 7.6 million jobs, according to a 2017 study by the Outdoor Industry Association.

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Partnerships with Trail Communities Benefit the PCT and Promote Economic Activity - continued

The thousands of trail users on the PCT each year are a prime example of that economic engine. They buy gear for outdoor adventures and patronize local businesses, outfitters, restaurants and hotels. In turn, these business owners see the PCT and its users as important assets in their future economic growth and sustainability. The Pacific Crest Trail Town Program

The PCTA engages a diverse audience of volunteers, donors and partners to support the construction, maintenance and protection of the Pacific Crest Trail. These partners include municipalities, state and federal government agencies, businesses, nonprofit organizations and private citizens. In 2017, in order to build stronger partnerships with communities along the PCT, we kicked off the Trail Town Program with our pilot town, Mount Shasta, in Siskiyou County, Northern California. “The Pacific Crest Trail is so important for the communities in Siskiyou County. Not only is it a draw for tourists who help to drive our small-town economies, it’s an asset for locals who escape to it for the health of their minds and bodies. The trail is part of our identity as a mountain community because we care deeply about the place we live. And the community is important to the trail users as well. That’s why it’s an honor that Mount Shasta is the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s first official trail town. Together, we will care for both the town and the trail.” —Ed Valenzuela, Siskiyou County Supervisor The goals of the Pacific Crest Trail Town Program areto support the long-term economic health of the communities along the PCT, enhance the trail experience for users and engage communities with the PCTA’s mission. In Mount Shasta, an advisory committee of local businesses, elected officials, nonprofits, the Chamber of Commerce and community members was established to work with the PCTA to implement this pilot program.

PCTA opens new office in Kernville, California In January 2019, the PCTA opened its sixth regional office in the rural community of Kernville. Surrounded by the Sequoia National Forest, the Kern River Valley has long served as a resupply point for hikers who visit Onyx, Lake Isabella, or Kernville on the west side of Walker Pass; and Inyokern and Ridgecrest to the east.

Kernville is centrally located within PCTA’s Southern Sierra Region, providing access to both sides of the High Sierra and proximity to the Tehachapi Mountains. With a thriving outdoor recreation economy, a local brewery, restaurants and many small businesses, the town of 2,000 is a great place for PCT users to spend time off trail. The PCTA hopes that as time goes on, the presence of a local Regional Representative based in the heart of Kern County will grow awareness of the PCT and the economic benefits it provides, leading to more significant support and protection for the trail.

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Established Protecting America’s Greatest by volunteers in 1977 Wild and Scenic recognized as the PCT’s Trail Experience champion & steward.

Headquarters: WA Sacramento,CA Staff:27 14,300 OR Regional Offices:6 N members A IL TI A ON TR AL SCENIC Organizing Governed by a volunteer CA Board of Directors 2,038 Volunteers of the 10 % PCT is still on private property. Partners: From 2010 to 2019 PCTA works to U.S. Forest Service The PCTA raised protect it all. Bureau of Land Management National Park Service $15.9million California State Parks while our volunteers gave more than and other nonprofit groups. service 2019 Operating 1million hours Budget Revenue an in-kind value of $ 2,704,000 66% Individual members and trail users $ 240,000 5% Corporate & outdoor industry partnerships $ 176,000 4% Foundations $24.2 $ 1,004,000 25% Federal agency partners million $4,124,000 100% TOTAL

You can help by becoming a PCTA member. Visit us at www.pcta.org$ or call us at 916-285-1846. Prepared by the Pacific Crest Trail Association • February 2020 Pacific Crest Trail Association The Pacific Crest Trail A National Scenic Trail Northern Terminus near: Manning Provincial Park, Canada highest point Forester Pass, CA 2,650miles 13,153’ WA from Mexico lowest point to Canada Bridge of the Gods 505 Cascade Locks, OR trail miles 180’ passes through North American 9ecoregions OR administered by 454 the U.S. trail miles Forest Service 25 million and the people live within an Pacific Crest hour’s drive of the PCT according to 2010 U.S. Census data Trail Association with 14,300 members established as a and organizing National Scenic Trail in 2,038 volunteers who contributed 1968 106,444 hours by Congress through the N maintaining the trail A IL National Trails System Act CA TI A in 2019. ON TR 1,691 AL SCENIC trail miles passes through wilderness BLM 48areas 7units national state 25 forests 5parks national national 6parks 5monuments

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The PCT and the 211-mile John Muir Trail major mountain passes, are the 60 most in the Sierra Nevada same trail and Cascade ranges. for 170 miles in the Southern Terminus Sierra Nevada Range. near: Campo, California To learn more, visit www.pcta.org