2025 Project Update
Wayfinding plan development is ongoing.
Project Map: https://sbtrails.org/maps/htc/heritage-trail-corridor.jpg
2022 Project Update
The California Missions Trail: From Sonoma to San Diego, first published in 2022, is now in its second edition, with distribution online and in bookstores worldwide. The book is available at the three Missions in Santa Barbara County: the Santa Barbara Historial Society, Chaucers Books, REI, and the Carpinteria Historial Museum.
2020 Project Update
In 2020, the Trails Council provided a research grant to Cicerone Press and guidebook author Sandy Brown to create The California Missions Trail: From Sonoma to San Diego. A contract from the Santa Barbara Association of Governments for the Northern Santa Barbara County Interim Alignment and Improvement Study was completed in 2020, and the results have informed the wayfinding plan.
2019 Project Update
In October 2019, the Phase One planning document was completed. Also in 2019, the Trails Council received a grant from the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission to pay stipends to three artists to design a wayfinding marker for the Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail, the California Coastal Trail, and the California Missions Trail in Santa Barbara County that all rest on historical Chumash trading routes. Information about the designs for the wayfinding markers is posted on this page: __
Project History
Location:
County of Santa Barbara
Description:
In October of 2017, the Trails Council initiated a long-term project to develop a comprehensive multi-phase wayfinding plan for the historical Chumash trading route covering the Juan Bautista de Anza Historic Trail, the California Coastal Trail, and the California Missions Trail in Santa Barbara County. Activities to date have included one-on-one meetings with federal, state, county, city, and other property owner/managers along the routes of the three trails. In January of 2018, an outreach event for governmental and non-governmental organizations—co-sponsored by Santa Barbara County Supervisor Joan Hartmann and the National Park Service—was held.
Client:
Santa Barbara County Trails Council, in collaboration with State, County, and City agencies.
Funding:
Trail planning funded by a technical grant to the Trails Council from the National Park Service: Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program.
Contact:
Mark Wilkinson, Executive Director, Santa Barbara County Trails Council
