Updates

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 […]

AEP 2014 Public Involvement/Education MERIT AWARD Gaviota Coastal Trail and Access Study Prepared by the Santa Barbara County Trails Council Imagine biking or hiking continuously along California’s scenic coastline without encountering […]

Phase 3 Implementation Begins With extensive community support the historic Franklin Trail is being re-established in the Los Padres National Forest. Once the last leg is completed it will be possible […]

The Trails Council is holding its second trail maintenance project for the Beach to Backcountry Trail at Gaviota State Park. Last November the volunteer crew cleared a long section of […]

On Friday, November 1st, the Franklin Trail ribbon cutting was held with over 150 in attendance. The Franklin Trail is Carpinteria’s poster child for volunteering and in-kind service donations. Listening […]

The Beach to Backcountry Trail extends from the beach at Gaviota State Park to near the Vista de las Cruces School.  It’s one of most beautiful trails on the Gaviota […]

Thanks to a generous series of grants from Brett and Natalie Hodges, this spring and summer, the Trails Council has worked extremely hard to improve existing trails and develop new […]

The Ellwood and Gaviota Coast Join us on Wednesday, October 24th, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm for a presentation and panel discussion on the California Coast Trail (CCT) in […]

Following up on its April 12, 2012 letter to the Board of Supervisors, the Trails Council has released a detailed description of the deficiencies it believes need to be addressed […]