Portola Redwoods Bear Creek Trail Maintenance

This month we join Trail Center, and the California State Parks team to work on Bear Creek Trail. We'll shuttle to our starting point, saving a lot of hiking to reach the end of the trail thanks to our friends at Save the Redwoods League. To volunteer please email volunteer@trailcenter.org and visit trailcenter.org for more details. We are not using Meetup to track attendees for this. Also please do not sign up for this unless you are sure you can come; often on Meetup we get people signing up who do not show - I understand, people think it's "just a meetup" but this is an organized volunteer event and we really need an accurate count of attendees.

Here are more details:

Join us for a special workday at Portola Redwoods State Park! We’ll be working on Bear Creek trail which is normally hard to get to. Thanks to our friends at Save the Redwoods League, we’re getting access to their property, which will enable us to reach the trail much more easily. This area is exceptionally beautiful with impressive redwoods. We will stage from Crocker Curve on Portola State Park Road. There is a gate there that leads to a private road (and trail) owned by Save the Redwoods League. There is plentiful parking along the road but carpooling is recommended. State Parks has access to the gate and has cleared access with Save the Redwoods. Volunteers will be shuttled from the gate to the trail. Once we get to the trail there’s about a .5 mile walk on the Save the Redwoods private trail, to Peters Creek Loop. From there we'll hike .2 miles to Bear Creek Trail and begin work.

Work will end in time for refreshments, the return hike and shuttle, so volunteers can be back at their cars about 3. Volunteers should plan to stay for the whole work day since it will be difficult to arrange for a lunchtime departure.
Volunteers need to bring: water, snacks and lunch, sturdy shoes (hiking boots recommended), sunscreen, precautions against poison oak exposure (long sleeved shirts and long pants). The Trail Center will provide gloves, tools and crew leaders to direct your work, and refreshments at the end of the day. Trail Center strongly recommends that all volunteers be fully vaccinated.