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Rancho San Vicente Trail Work Day, 4/23/16 by Ronald Horii
On 4/23/16, the first public trail work day was held at the Rancho San Vicente addition to Calero County Park. Rancho San Vicente covers 966 acres. The County purchased it in 2009. In 2010, we had the first County Parks public hike there: http://www.stpfriends.org/RSV_04-17-10/Hike.html
Since then, it's only been open for guided hikes. In order to open it to free public access. the trail plan needs to completed.
This is the Calero Trails Master Plan: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Pages/Calero-County-Park-Trails-Master-Plan.aspx
The trail plan was approved in 2013. Since then, trails crews have been designing and laying out the trail, while waiting for permits to be issued. The final permit was issued earlier in the week, and trail construction began. The trail crews cut the first section of trail with a bulldozer. For today's trail day, volunteers worked on grooming this new trail section and installing erosion barriers. — at Calero Reservoir County Park. (near Calero Reservoir County Park)
On 4/23/16, the first public trail work day was held at the Rancho San Vicente addition to Calero County Park. Rancho San Vicente covers 966 acres. The County purchased it in 2009. In 2010, we had the first County Parks public hike there: http://www.stpfriends.org/RSV_04-17-10/Hike.html
Since then, it's only been open for guided hikes. In order to open it to free public access. the trail plan needs to completed.
This is the Calero Trails Master Plan: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/parks/PlansProjects/Pages/Calero-County-Park-Trails-Master-Plan.aspx
The trail plan was approved in 2013. Since then, trails crews have been designing and laying out the trail, while waiting for permits to be issued. The final permit was issued earlier in the week, and trail construction began. The trail crews cut the first section of trail with a bulldozer. For today's trail day, volunteers worked on grooming this new trail section and installing erosion barriers. — at Calero Reservoir County Park. (near Calero Reservoir County Park)
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Jennifer Moore and 3 others like this.
Sharlene Nay
Thanks for that. Many of us who use the trails have no idea of the work that goes into them!
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Cissy Brazil
Thank you Ron. Fascinating stuff. Puts a real like look into trail building. I look forward to someday (if not too old by then) to hiking in them...preferab
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Ronald Horii
We'll be giving docent-guided hikes for a couple of years. They have 30+ miles of trails to build, plus the staging areas, bridges, etc. Also, the guided hikes follow existing ranch roads that will be decommissioned once the new trails are in place, so we go places that won't be accessible later. The next hike is on Sunday May 15 at 9:00, meeting at the Calero park office.
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