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Upcoming Trail Work

March

Black Hill

March 14

Sunday 9:00am 

Meet at La Loma & Los Tunas Streets


April

Irish Hills

April 10

Saturday 9:00am 

Meet at western end of Madonna Road

We Do Trails – Join Us    


We encourage low-impact riding because we're the ones out there mitigating the impact with shovels and picks on weekend days and throughout the rest of the year.  Help us keep the trails of SLO County alive and fun to ride. For good karma, be cool with other users on the trail: always ride in control and don't run people over.

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CCCMB Goals

  • Maintain existing and legal SLO County trails with environmentally sensitive tactics.
  • Have the organizational capacity to design and build new, sustainable multi-use trails as the opportunity arises.
  • Foster cooperation and understanding among various trail user groups through working together, communicating well, and sharing educational information.
  • Promote trail etiquette which fosters sound trail use and healthy relationships within our trail community.
  • Work closely and cooperatively with all major public land managers in SLO County in order to make it easier for them to provide appropriate trail opportunities for all users.  


The mission of the Central Coast Concerned Mountain Bikers (CCCMB) is to expand the network of sustainable and enjoyable trails in SLO County and to maintain the trails currently in use. Since 1987, we have worked with California State Parks, the National Forest Service, San Luis Obispo City, and San Luis Obispo County in designing and building new trails and in maintaining existing ones. 


CCCMB organizes at least one trail workday per month. In addition, we usually host two major workdays each year called TRAILWERKS: all-day events with meals, tee-shirts, and raffle prizes for participants. Affiliated with the International Mountain Bike Association (IMBA), CCCMB encourages everyone who enjoys our fun and impressive trail system to volunteer for workdays as well as demonstrate the best practices of trail etiquette that help prevent future erosion, reduce user conflicts, and ensure trail access. 








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Donate to CCCMB through 1% for the Planet
  
Do you or your company participate as donors with the 1% for the Planet project? Sweet! You can now direct contributions to CCCMB, which has recently joined this program as a recipient. 

Effective trail building and maintenance protect the planet in many ways including helping trail users engage with nature so they'll want to help preserve it, insulating sensitive habitat and individual plant and animal species from foot-hoof-wheel traffic, and mitigating those destructive erosive effects that emerge on the trail. Thanks for your support. : )

Thanks for helping with Santa Margarita Lake trails
Thanks to everyone who came out to the work day at Santa Margarita Lake on March 6.  We had 27 volunteers including numerous hikers, eight equestrians, with 11 first timers.  Santa Margarita Lake is a beautiful area with miles of trails accessible from the main entrance on Pozo Road and from the River Road entrance.  The park doesn't get a lot of TLC so the work day was very needed. 
 
Swag included sunglasses and bells for all. Raffle prices went to Theodore Johnson (bike shop gift certificate winner), and an equestrian (back pack).
 
Thanks to everyone, including the crew leaders, for all their efforts! CCCMB could not keep the SLO trails in shape without your wonderful participation. Thank you!

PLEASE DO NOT USE WET TRAILS

Please give wet trails time to dry out before going for a hike, bike, or gallop.  Staying off wet trails until they have time to dry out for a couple of days will prevent additional damage from occurring.

Access and submit updated trail conditions on the SLO Trail Updates and Info site, accessible through "The Dirt: Trail Info" page on this site or via this direct link. Sign up there for email updates on trail conditions.

Please share this information with other trail users you know and remind your friends. Thanks for your help and understanding.

This conference provides trail professionals, advocates, volunteers, and users with a venue for sharing practical, up-to-date trail management skills, as well as a forum for networking and building support for accessible, inter-connected, quality non-motorized trail systems. CCCMB encourages folks to attend as it is a great opportunity to learn and to network with other trail users and organizations.




Improve Your Ride through Trail Work

Bring your bike and immediately reap the benefits after a few hours of trail work. Maintaining our local trails improves the rideable surface for you and your bike. It also helps improve your skills by increasing your familiarity with individual trail features. 
 


Our volunteers do approximately 2,000 hours of trail work – moving dirt – each year. As a result of nearly 25 years of dedication, perspiration, and communication, we currently maintain all the commonly used cycling trails in the county including Morning Glory on West Cuesta Ridge and Fernandez Trail in Pozo as well as trails in the Irish Hills, on San Luis Mountain, at Lopez and Santa Margarita Lakes, and at Montana de Oro, and a number of other natural and recreational lands in our area.  


CCCMB crew leaders have played an important part in the design and construction of essentially all the new multi-use trails developed in SLO County over the last 15 years including Barranca and Hazard Peak Trails in Montana de Oro, Morning Glory, the Mariposa and King Trails in the Irish Hills, and Lemon Grove on San Luis Mountain. This successful trail maintenance and construction record is a direct result of well-established, ongoing, and cooperative working relationships we have with State Parks, the Forest Service, and the City and County of San Luis Obispo.