Recap: National Trails Day 2025
National Trails Day 2025!! What a day!
HUGE thank you to everyone who showed up last Saturday for our 3rd annual countywide National Trails Day event! The day started off a little overcast, in typical June fashion, but the sun came out nice and early and we had a gorgeous day to celebrate trails.
600+ of you came out and donated your time across 20 different open spaces to make meaningful improvements for trail access. And then we all celebrated with live music, food, and an epic raffle at Woodhouse Brewing. This event is what we're all about—community, trail access, and having FUN outside together.
There's a bazillion awesome photos from the day but check out some of our favorite photos below!!
Caution! Whole lot of trail work ahead!! Photo: Christine La
But first, breakfast! Photo: Christine La
Somewhere north of 100 different trail maintenance projects happened across all of the sites. Trail Sage, Tom Wilson, photographed here explaining one of the drainage projects on U-Con Trail. Photo: Christine La
Another one of the 100+ different trail projects here. Precisely packing these rocks for a tight fit into a larger rock armoring section on U-Con Trail. Photo: Christine La
You think this Wilder Ranch crew knew they’d be ankle deep in a stream, fixing a bridge?😅 Photo: Jacquie Van Metre
Many hands make light work ‘flossing’ bridges on Emma McCrary Trail. Photo: Mark A.
Reworking the rock armoring on a notorious drainage spot along Sawpit Trail. Photo: John P.
National Trails Day is for all shapes, sizes, and experience levels! Photo: Mark A.
The Nisene Marks crew getting their first look at the invasive English Ivy they were there to remove. 😅 Photo: Lawrence S.
Trail Crew Leader, Mr. Michael Horn, jumped on a saw to clear some trees on Emma McCrary Trail. Photo: Mark A.
The Harvey West Pump Track got some serious improvements. Reshaping, resurfacing, and a ton of brushing. Photo: Christine La
An insane amount of brushing went down at Arana Gulch. Thanks for leading, Patagonia SC crew! Photo: Tristan S.
Time to party! Everyone came hungry and the food line may have gotten a bit long but it was moving. Thanks for your patience... Photo: Christine La
…the food was worth the wait, though! Photo: Christine La
Local band, Squid Row, laid down awesome tunes all afternoon. Photo: Christine La
Best dressed!! Photo: Christine LA
Santa Cruz Trails silipints were a hit! Photo: Christine La
Grand prize raffle winner taking home a Onewheel!! Photo: Christine La
We had so many awesome artists come out, like Hawk & Hammer here. She also did our poster art for National Trails Day! Photo: Christine La
To add to the excitement, we also handed out the volunteer rewards Ibis bike winner. Congrats, Tom Wilson! Photo: Christine La
Who got their photo snapped at the photo booth?! Photo: Jacquie Van Metre
We’ll see you all next year! Photo: Christine La
We owe one final thank you to Onewheel for being the presenting sponsor this year. It means a lot to us to have a local company come onboard to support our biggest event of the year. Thank you, Woodhouse for hosting an awesome afterparty. Thank you to all other sponsors who supported the event, organizations that led a project site, local businesses and artist who came out to the afterparty, and of course all of the volunteers who came out and donated your time.
If you missed it this year, check out what happened below and mark your calendars now for next year's event on 6/6/2026!😉
View the full photo album here.
