Placer County Board of Supervisors this week authorized funding for a section of the Martis Valley Trail.

The proposed Class I bike path will be a corridor away from streets, roads and highways offering recreational opportunitie s not found on conventional roads. The 1.76-mile section of trail OK’d by the board will pass through areas of the Martis Valley, which sits between Truckee and the Tahoe Rim Trail.

The plan is for a 10.4-mile trail to eventually connect Truckee to North Lake Tahoe. The trail will run from the edge of Truckee, through Martis Valley and the Northstar Village, to the Fiberboard Freeway near Brockway Summit above Kings Beach. The project is part of a regional plan to create a paved Class 1 Bike Path connecting Truckee, Martis Valley, Northstar, Kings Beach, Tahoe City, Alpine Meadows, Squaw Valley, and will include existing sections of Class 1 trail that run along the Truckee River, through Squaw Valley, and along the West Shore of Lake Tahoe.

The Martis Valley Trail will be located primarily on Placer County owned trail easements and when completed, will be operated by the county.

The board’s action on Tuesday approved a budget revision that will move $750,000 in park dedication fees collected from Park Dedication Fe
e Recreation Area #1, in the North Tahoe-Martis area and $254,150 from a grant awarded through the Housing-Related Parks Grant Program.