If you're familiar with trails in your local State Park that would be perfectly good to ride, but currently aren't legal to do so, please spend at least a minute or two submitting a comment to State Parks while they are asking for them. It's easy to do in the link below.
California State Parks (CSP) is currently accepting public comments on its recently-released report: the Draft Program Environmental Impact Report, Road and Trail Change-in-Use Evaluation Process (PEIR).
The new process will be used to facilitate the addition of mountain bikes on existing state park trails. The process is a major step forward for CSP and will positively effect mountain bike access on existing trails in state park units.
California State Parks has worked over the last several years to create a fact-based, objective system to determine appropriate trail use. The key feature of the report is that it will allow for the addition of mountain bikes on specific trails without the need for additional environmental analysis. Future project decisions to allow bikes on trails will merely need to reference the PEIR. This is a major step forward for bike access in state parks.
Here's the comment form: Submit Your Comments to California State Parks | IMBA
This thread covers the topic in much more depth, but I'm not sure how many people have perused it and realize it's importance (thus a new, call to action thread): https://forums.mtbr.com/california-norcal/dpr-streamline-change-use-policy-819141.html
If you're lazy, at least copy and paste all or some of IMBA's talking points into the comment section:
Thanks! :thumbsup:
California State Parks (CSP) is currently accepting public comments on its recently-released report: the Draft Program Environmental Impact Report, Road and Trail Change-in-Use Evaluation Process (PEIR).
The new process will be used to facilitate the addition of mountain bikes on existing state park trails. The process is a major step forward for CSP and will positively effect mountain bike access on existing trails in state park units.
California State Parks has worked over the last several years to create a fact-based, objective system to determine appropriate trail use. The key feature of the report is that it will allow for the addition of mountain bikes on specific trails without the need for additional environmental analysis. Future project decisions to allow bikes on trails will merely need to reference the PEIR. This is a major step forward for bike access in state parks.
Here's the comment form: Submit Your Comments to California State Parks | IMBA
This thread covers the topic in much more depth, but I'm not sure how many people have perused it and realize it's importance (thus a new, call to action thread): https://forums.mtbr.com/california-norcal/dpr-streamline-change-use-policy-819141.html
If you're lazy, at least copy and paste all or some of IMBA's talking points into the comment section:
Better yet, write your own thoughts. To do nothing would be a disservice to the mt. biking community.
Thanks! :thumbsup: