Three years ago, when I wrote about cycling from the Crannell Road exit of U.S. Highway 101 to the end of the Humboldt Bay Trail (“Cycling Along the Water,” March 10, 2022), I was not optimistic about being able to ride past the “End of Trail” sign in the foreseeable future. It wasn’t because I […]
Great Redwood Trail
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Building Trails and Resilience
Humboldt County has come a long way from the days when railroads dominated the conversation about economic development and few local politicians saw trails as a community priority. It took trail pioneers working for many agonizing years to complete the Hammond Trail. And the Bay Trail seemed forever mired in a mountain of feasibility studies […]
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Upcoming Virtual Summit is All About Trails
A Virtual Humboldt Trails Summit is scheduled for June 6 to update residents about the progress being made on local trail projects, including the Humboldt Bay Trail, which will stretch from the southern edge of Eureka to Arcata. State Sen. Mike McGuire will also join in the summit to discuss the status of the Great […]
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State Senate Unanimously Passes ‘Great Redwood Trail’ Bill
The Great Redwood Trail is one step closer to reality. A bill by North Coast state Sen. Mike McGuire to dissolve the North Coast Railroad Authority and transform the defunct railway from Willits to Arcata into a multi-use trail nabbed a unanimous 36-0 vote on the Senate floor last night. “There is tremendous support for […]