There is no shortage of dirt out there. Thousands of miles of it lead nowhere, and plenty more will break something for no good reason. These are not those. Every route here earns the drive: a vista, a place worth stopping, something to see, or a better way to get where you were going anyway.
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Every track was driven, not drawn, and nothing goes on here just because it was long or rough. If there is no reason to be on it, it does not make the list. Download the GPX, load it in onX or Gaia, and go.
All of these are legal and on the forest public use maps. Conditions change and gates close, so check before you commit to one.
Sproul State Forest
Placeholder sitting in the layout. Real tracks, names, and the notes on what is worth stopping for are going in here.
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Keep them open
Pack it in, pack it out, and that includes what the last person left. Stay on the trail and do not cut a new line around a mud hole to keep your paint clean. Respect gates and seasonal closures when nobody is watching, because that is the only time it counts.
Every route on this site is legal today. None of them are guaranteed to be legal next year. Trails get gated over ruts, trash and shortcuts, not over what anybody drives. The ones we still have are the ones somebody looked after.
He is the most important part of what we do out here. A hundred and fifty pounds of Newfoundland who has met hundreds of people and left every one of them better than he found them. He works as a certified therapy dog. Out here he gets to stop working and just be a dog in a creek.
A therapy dog's job is other people. He visits where he is invited, always with his handler, and the work is simply being there while somebody is having a hard day. Hospitals, nursing homes, schools, libraries, reading programs. He is not a service dog and he is not an emotional support dog. Those are different jobs with different training and different rules.
Want a visit?
Events, nursing homes, schools, libraries, reading programs, or one person going through something who would just like to meet a very large dog. You do not have to be an organization and you do not have to be running anything. Just ask.
Therapy work is volunteer work. There is no charge for a visit and there never will be.
Ask for a visit
Scan to follow
There is a dog on it and a code on the bottom. Somebody left it on your ride because they liked it, and that is the whole tradition. Scan the code, see where it came from, then pass it along to the next ride you find at a trailhead.
What is this duck Where they went