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USFS considering Kingsbury trail improvements


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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is asking for public input on a proposal to reconstruct the Kingsbury Stinger Trail near Kingsbury Grade.

The Stinger Trail runs approximately 2.75 miles from Genoa Peak Road to Terrace View Drive on lower Kingsbury Grade and is open to all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles and mountain bikes. The trail is steep in places, is prone to erosion, crosses private land for approximately 280 feet on the lower segment and no longer meets current Forest Service standards for safety and sustainability.

The proposed project would reroute excessively steep trail segments, install speed control features, improve sightlines along the full length of the trail, install measures to prevent erosion and improve water quality and reroute the section of the trail that crosses private land.

The intersection with the Tahoe Rim Trail would be relocated to prevent motor vehicles from trespassing onto the TRT.

Project work could begin this summer. Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association and other interested volunteers will help with construction.

Comments should be received by April 3. For more info, go online or contact Jacob Quinn at 530.543.2609 or jmquinn@fs.fed.us.

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Comments (9)
  1. Perry R. Obray says - Posted: March 19, 2015

    Great way to provide recreation in a competent manner probably. The below link shows how technical it can be to better a trail. The trail was recently finished to rave reviews.
    http://youtu.be/OuHl8KZqyJ8

  2. Steven says - Posted: March 20, 2015

    No motor vehicles !

  3. Liz says - Posted: March 20, 2015

    I second that…no motor vehicles, please!

  4. Dogula says - Posted: March 20, 2015

    Why are hikers so damn selfish about the trails? They don’t want to share them with horses, bikes, motorcycles, snowmobiles, nothin’! There are VERY few trails where motorized vehicles are allowed, and that happens to be one of them.
    Can’t we all just get along?

  5. sunriser2 says - Posted: March 21, 2015

    Only healthy (greedy) mountain bikers and hikers should be able to enjoy the outdoors.

    The population in America is aging and access to the outdoors shouldn’t be denied to older and handicapped people.

  6. business owner says - Posted: March 21, 2015

    Watermelons…

  7. Butters says - Posted: March 21, 2015

    Bananas

  8. nature bats last says - Posted: March 25, 2015

    Dog and BO. Sour grapes…..

  9. rock4tahoe says - Posted: March 25, 2015

    Dog says “It must suck to be you.” And you have first hand knowledge of “sucking” do you… Dog? ;)