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Description: Tiger Creek to Ebbetts Pass and the Pacific Crest Trail (60 miles) Lead Agency: USDA Forest
Service, Stanislaus National Forest The Calaveras County District 2 Trail Group and members of the The Mokelumne Coast to Crest Trail Council (MCCTC) have been actively surveying and mapping potential routes for the MCCT on existing roads between Moore Creek and the Pacific Crest Trail at Ebbett's Pass. The goal is to determine if a trail can be created with minimal resources that are separate from off-highway vehicle trails. The primary objective is to map potential trails for Stanislaus National Forest and MCCTC consideration. A portion of the route will probably have to be constructed and will network with historic trails that will need to be refurbished. Alternate routes will be constructed when the resources become available. Prior Year Accomplishments: Initial reconnaissance and preliminary environmental studies have been completed for a 30 mile section of the trail from Tiger Creek Afterbay to Mattley Creek/Blue Hole Trailhead. A 5.1 mile, handicapped accessible section of the trail from Bear Valley to the East side of Lake Alpine was completed and dedicated in 1998. A $750,000 Forest Service capital improvements grant has been tentatively awarded for construction of a trail section between Moore Creek Campground and Mattley Creek, pending completion of additional planning studies and identification of additional committed partners. The Stanislaus national Forest has recently completed planning for 15 miles of trails and roads to extend the MCCT from the western edge of Alpine County to Mosquito Lakes, and then from Pacific Valley to the head of Marshall Canyon. Of the 16 miles 12 are within Alpine County. This will extend the trail to within 7 miles of Ebbetts Pass. Three miles of trail were completed in 2004. In 2005 7 more miles of trail were completed from Mattley Trailhead to within a mile East of Calaveras Dome.
Work on the Trail has been on-going this summer (2006) and great progress is being made between Calaveras Dome and Bear Valley.
Updated September20, 2007 |