Ride and Smile!

The local trails are riding sweet and the rivers are raging, which makes it a perfect time for a mountain biking vacation to the Lost Sierra.

The following is a list of trails located in the Tahoe and Plumas National Forests, that are maintained by the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, www.sierratrails.org, in partnership with the Forest Service and other volunteer trail groups. Many of these trails are maintained as part of a trail adoption program administered and organized through the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship. Trail adoption programs ensure that each individual trail receives regular maintenance and upkeep, each season. The Stewardship also hosts monthly Trail Daze volunteer work days, these work days account for more than 22,000 volunteer labor hours on historic, multiple-use, and motorized multiple-use trails. If you enjoy riding high country trails in the Sierra Buttes region, then join us; as a volunteer, as a member, as a steward.

Installing a drain on Pauley Creek Trail. The water was running down the length of the trail for several hundred yards, causing erosion.

Route finding on the new Smith Lake Trail near Mt. Elwell and Gray Eagle Creek Trail. This trail provides a link between Jamison Creek Trail and Smith Creek Trail.

Chimney Rock Trail offers some of the best views of the surrounding Sierra, and is one of the areas premiere singletrack trails. SBTS will be rerouting and reducing grade on Craycroft Ridge Trail, which will make getting to Chimney Rock a bit more tolerable. From where Craycroft intersects with Chimney Rock, you can descend Chimney and access either Rattlesnake Creek or Herkimer Mine for a 4,500' singletrack drop to the Downie River, and on to Downieville.

Sunrise- 1.9 miles
CLOSED

Butcher Ranch- 4.0 miles
OPEN WITH PATCHY SNOW

Pauley Creek- 3.5 miles
OPEN WITH SNOW DRIFTS ON GOLD VALLEY ROAD

Big Boulder- 3.2 miles
OPEN TO MINE SITE

Downie River- 3.5 miles
LOWER END IS OPEN TO HERKIMER / RATTLESNAKE CREEK INTERSECTION

Herkimer Mine/Bunker Hill- 2.7 miles
LOWER END OPEN TO 6,500'

Rattlesnake Creek- 3.2 miles
LOWER END OPEN TO 6,500'

Lavezzola Creek- 5.1 miles
LOWER END OPEN TO 6,500'

Fiddle Creek Ridge- 6.0 miles
OPEN

Halls Ranch- 5.0 miles
OPEN check out this map for the Mountain Epic ride

Third Divide- 2.8 miles
OPEN AND RIDING SWEET, THANKS TO SBTS. Click for a map of the Divide Loop and North Yuba

Second Divide- 6.1 miles
OPEN AND RIDING SWEET, THANKS TO SBTS

First Divide- 3.4 miles
OPEN

Chimney Rock- 4.8 miles
CLOSED. click for a map of Chimney Rock, Empire Creek, Rattlesnake Creek and Herkimer Mine Trails

Empire Creek- 2.5 miles
LOWER OPEN

North Yuba-15.8 miles
OPEN and now you can ride from Downieville to Indian Valley thanks to the SBTS Trail Crew and countless volunteers. check out this perspective for the big picture on the North Yuba River Trail

Bullards Bar
OPEN with tics and poison oak in full force. click for a map of Bullards Bar Trail

Tamarack- .2 miles
OPEN

Upper Salmon- 2.0 miles
CLOSED

Sierra Buttes- 3.3 miles
CLOSED

Sardine Lake Overlook- 4.0 miles
LOWER END IS OPEN TO THE SUMMIT

Deer Lake- 2.9 miles
CLOSED

Oakland Pond- 2.2 miles
CLOSED

Mt. Elwell
CLOSED. click for a map of the Lakes Basin Recreation Area

Round Lake
CLOSED

Bear Lakes Loop
ALMOST OPEN

Long Lake
ALMOST OPEN

Gray Eagle Creek
OPEN

Smith Creek
OPEN

Mills Peak
OPEN. click here for a map highlighting the trail system around Graeagle

Mohawk Rim Trail
click to check out the Master Plan for the Mohawk Rim Trail, which connects communities to each other and to their surrounding public lands. The trail system will also host an overnight hut-to-hut system