Online Presentation: Building a Comprehensive Trails Plan

Building a Comprehensive Trails Plan for Santa Barbara County: Where? What? How and Who? with Ray Ford

Free Online Presentation with Q&A
Thursday, June 16th, 5:30pm

In the next few years Santa Barbara County will be completing a trails master plan that could call for new trail access. Currently, the County is inventorying current trail access and analyzing new potential routes. This talk will provide an in-depth look at what we have, where new trails might be added and how this might occur.

Ray Ford has more than a decade of experience designing, rehabilitating, and repairing trails in the Santa Barbara area, and has coordinated and led trail projects for the Santa Barbara Trails Council and Los Padres Forest Association.

He is the author of numerous books and maps on hiking, backpacking, and mountain biking in the Santa Barbara area including Santa Barbara Day Hikes (1975-present), Trails of the San Rafael Wilderness (1974), Santa Barbara Mountain Biking (1992), Santa Barbara Road Rides (1992), Santa Barbara Wildfires (1991) and the recently revised Santa Barbara Front Country Trails map; and is the outdoors writer for Noozhawk. His website is www.sboutdoors.com.

This talk is being live-streamed via Zoom. To register go to, https://santabarbaraca.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=37767&ds=2022%2f6%2f16&de=2022%2f6%2f16&fe=0&df=list&backTo=List&startDate=2022/06/16&endDate=2022/06/16

This free online presentation is part of the Trail Talks series hosted by the Santa Barbara Public Library.

The next talk in the series is Thursday, July 21st, 5:30pm, Tahoe Rim Trail Overview & Sustainable Trail Use, with Morgan Steel and Tommy Rosenbluth from the Tahoe Rim Trail Association