Updates

JOIN US on July 14th for our celebration of Latino Conservation Week: Disfrutando y Conservando Nuestra Tierra. Latino Conservation Week was created to encourage the Latino community to get outdoors […]

[NOVEMBER 2020 UPDATE: the new bridge is being installed]. We are looking forward to announcing the opening of new trails at Baron Ranch early in 2021. We have made great […]

JOIN US on July 22nd for our celebration of Latino Conservation Week: Disfrutando y Conservando Nuestra Tierra. Latino Conservation Week was created to support the Latino community getting into the […]

[2021 UPDATE] The trails proposed over a decade ago are now open seven days a week for all trail users except our canine friends. For more information, please visit the […]

Live Music and Happy Hour at Carpinteria Arts Center Please join the Santa Barbara County Trails Council and the Friends of Franklin Trail in a toast to the winners of the 93013 Photo Contest on […]

Preliminary Line Makes Way for Environmental Assessment —For those of you who were with us when we finally cut through the last remaining section of brush and made it to […]

Secure Coastal Access and Trails — The fate of coastal access and the location of the California Coastal Trail on Gaviota’s Las Varas Ranch has moved from the County Planning Commission to […]

Phase III | Los Padres National Forest Segment Taking the Franklin Trail to the crest of the Santa Ynez Mountains (Phase III) will add 2.7 miles of trail infrastructure to one […]

Twenty hardworking volunteers just finished replacing 100 posts and over 1000 feet of manila rope that cordoned off the viewing galleries in the Goleta Butterfly Grove. If you have not […]

Proposed Las Varas Ranch Development [UPDATE: The  Santa Barbara County Planning Commission at their hearing of September 23, 2014, the commissioners made the following motion on the Las Varas Ranch […]