Founded in 2016, the Bigfoot Trail Alliance continues to grow and positively impact local communities. With initiatives like the Youth Stewardship Project, they work to engage youth through place-based experiences and career awareness. Moreover, they have secured significant agreements for trail work on National Forests. Alongside aiming to increase diverse board membership, they also plan to hire key personnel in 2024.
Bear Creek Trail, Trinity Alps Wilderness
May 17-19, 2023 Volunteer Work Trip By Dennis Houghton, Crew Leader (all photos by Dennis too!) We had a great trip to the Canyon Creek drainage, camping at Ripstein Campground and doing trail maintenance & logouts on the Bear Creek trail section of the Bigfoot trail this past week. Temperatures hovered in the mid-to-high 80’s […]
2023 Tule Creek Trail
In this first of its kind project along the Bigfoot Trail, we partnered with College of the Redwoods Forestry & Natural Resources and the Hayfork Watershed Research and Training Center to get some work done! Fifteen (15!) volunteers came together to make this happen. Dennis Houghton brought his Trails class from College of the Redwoods, […]
BFTA Welcomes 4 New Board Members
There is quite a bit happening behind the scenes at the Bigfoot Trail Alliance and it is time we share one of our recent achievements. We would like to officially welcome Gretchen Ziegler, Aaron Babcock, Jacob Shinners, and Dennis Houghton to the Board of Directors. We now have 11 people in these positions and will […]
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Here we celebrate 2022 and look forward to more in 2023.
2022 Bigfoot Trail Siskiyou Wilderness Collaborative
OCTOBER 2022: This collaborative includes working with the CCC Backcountry Trails Program, Six Rivers National Forest, and other volunteers to work the Kelsey Trail in the Siskiyou Wilderness clearing approximately 6 miles of trail including brushing, tread work, and downed tree removal.
Upper Wooley Creek
JUNE 2022: A team of 15 volunteers worked the Bigfoot Trail in upper Wooley Creek as well as significant portions of other nearby trails including opening trail to Elk Lake. We removed 120+ trees and brushed 3.5 miles of difficult trail.
Kelsey Trail: Baldy Peak to Harrington Mountain
The South Kelsey Trail was first designated as a National Recreation Trail in 1979, but was used by early miners between 1855-1880 as a route between Crescent City and Fort Jones and other inland mines in the Klamath River region and Yreka. Along with the Old Kelsey Trail, the South Kelsey is a key portion […]
