California Trail Corridor System
• Existing or planned long distance trail routes
• Identified in the California Recreational Trails Act, 1978
• Must meet 3 of 10 established criteria in California Recreational Trails Plan California Trail Corridors
• Currently the 26 Trail Corridors in California are in various levels of development, planning, completion and public use.
• Trail Corridors are in the backcountry, on the coast, in cities, suburbs, along rivers, through historic routes and on abandoned rail grades. Corridors with Substantial Progress or Completed • American Discovery Trail • Bay Area Ridge Trail • California Coastal Trail • Lake Tahoe Bikeway • Los Angeles River Trail • San Gabriel River Trail • Mokelumne Coast to Crest Trail • Pacific Crest Trail • San Francisco Bay Trail • San Joaquin River Trail • Santa Ana River Trail • Tahoe Rim Trail • Trans County Trail Corridors With Minimal Progress
Characteristics: major gaps and minimal management
These trails include:
• Cuesta to Sespe Trail • Condor Trail • Merced River Trail • Whittier to Ortega Trail • Tuolumne Complex Trails Corridors With Little or no Progress
• Redwood Coast to Crest Trail
• Cross California Ecological Trail Heritage Corridors and Historic Routes:
• Pony Express National Historic Trail 140 miles long in CA, along the Highway 50 Corridor, about 25 miles is in the El Dorado National Forest.
• Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Through 14 counties and 2 states, traces the 1,210 mile route of explorer Juan Bautista de Anza over dirt trails and roads close to the historic route. Next Steps
• Maintain up-to-date database, contact information, mapping and planning progress of Trail Corridors from managing entities. • Compile information on new Trail Corridors currently not included in the system.