Safety issues that had to be mitigated before the trails could be reopened include “hazard trees” (trees that were badly burned in the fire and are susceptible to falling) deep ruts and washouts burned and damaged stairs, culverts and bridges and hazardous rocks. “An especially rainy season hindered the work and created a variety of additional hazards, but these folks really came through and made it happen.” “Our sm all trails crew, assisted on some days by our valuable partners, which include members o f the California Conservation Corps, Camp 13 and the Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council, did a phenomenal job in restoring these trails,” said David Szymanski, superintendent of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Cheeseboro/Palo Comado Canyons, Paramount Ranch, Rancho Sierra Vista and the Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center at King Gillette Ranch are also open.Other trails and areas in the park still closed include Solstice Canyon and trails in Zuma/Trancas Canyons. Places, but the trees, shrubs, and ferns were beginning to resprout.Īll official trails in Circle X Ranch, one of the park’s most remote and scenic locations, are now open, including the Mishe Mokwa Loop, Sandstone Peak Trail, and the Tri Peaks Trail. Without the vegetation, the formerly wooded trail is now a vertigo-inducing cliffside adventure in The Messenger Mountain News visited Zuma Ridge on the day the trail reopened. The newly reopened areas include the 2.5-mile Zuma Ridge Backbone Trail segment, from Kanan Dume Road to Encinal Canyon, and Grotto Trail in the Circle X area, off Yerba Buena Road. Large portions of the trail have been closed since the Woolsey Fire destroyed 88 percent of federal parkland, and almost 50 percent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area last November. Only a four-mile stretch from from Yerba Buena Road to the Mishe Mokwa Trailhead, and a six-mile segment from the Kanan Trailhead east to the Corral Canyon Trailhead remain off limits. It took four months of hard work, complicated by the government shutdown, but NPS crews have now restored access to almost all of the 67-mile-long Backbone Trail. More trails in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area have reopened following the Woolsey Fire, including two key segments of the Backbone Trail managed by the National Park Service. Erosion caused by heavy rains following the fire, washed out sections of hillside. National Park Service crews had to reconstruct the trail at Zuma Ridge.
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