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For information on upcoming trail days, please visit our News and Events Page. Condition Reports This page is a compilation of reports on conditions and maintenance needs of Mount Tamalpais trails. The TCC's Trails Committee maintains this page as a service to hikers, and for use in planning future trail maintenance projects. We rely upon you, the users of the mountain's trails, to provide information on trail conditions. There are well over 100 miles of hiking trails on the mountain. We cannot be everywhere at once. Please take the time to send us any information you do not see already posted on this page. We would appreciate reports of any maintenance needs you see, and also reports of any trails you find to be in good condition. Our goal is to provide comprehensive information on all trails. Scroll down this page to see the list of reports. The area covered is generally the same as included in Barry Spitz' book, Tamalpais Trails. This area is bounded by Highway 1 through Green Gulch to the southeast, and by Bolinas-Fairfax Rd. and Audubon Canyon Ranch to the northwest. This page also covers a small part of the Pine Mountain area. To submit a report, please click here and fill out the form.
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International Trail (MMWD) |
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10/7/02, CVR: The TCC trail crew and the MMWD rehabilitated much of this between August of 2001 and the spring of 2002. Many water bars and three flights of steps have been installed, and brush trimmed. A short reroute has been completed where the trail crosses a low ridge about halfway along the trail's length. At the junction with Upper North Side Trail, for a short distance the trail had eroded into a deep ditch in serpentine soil. The TCC has mostly, but not quite, completed a project to build several steps here. The trail requires further brushing for its full length, intermittent tread improvements, and minor improvements at a number of steep spots. About two or three steps should be built at the Ridgecrest Blvd. trailhead, to halt undercutting of the asphalt. This trail is a little below the width and standard of major trails such as the North Side Trail, and full upgrading should not be attempted. |
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10/7/02, CVR: The MMWD has been undertaking a major rehabilitation of this trail. |
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Potrero Meadows to Serpentine Point Lateral: 10/14/01, CVR: From Potrero Meadows to a little past the intersection with Cross Country Boys Trail, Kent Trail is in need of light to moderate brushing in a number of places. A number of places need drainage improvements. The situation through the forest in the vicinity of the Cross Country Boys Trail crossing is especially difficult, as the trail runs straight up and down the hillside (though on a moderate grade) in a low spot. Some distance past the Cross Country Boys Trail, the trail becomes more brushy. There are sections of moderate to fairly heavy brush intermittently to Serpentine Point Lateral. Serpentine Point Lateral to Helen Markt Trail: 10/14/01, CVR: This segment of trail has some eroded segments near the top, where the trail runs through chaparral. There are moderately brushy sections here, too. Approaching Stocking Trail, there are a number of flights of steps. Unfortunately, mountain bikers are making S-curves around these steps, wearing away soil wide of the proper trail tread. The trail down to Helen Markt Trail is for the most part in fair to good condition, and in need of only light trimming. Helen Markt Trail to end. |
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Lagoon Extension Trail (MMWD) |
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1/29/01, CVR: This trail is essentially unmaintained. While no reports have been received as to the entire length of the trail, the section from Van Wyck Creek Trail to Rocky Ridge Road is badly overgrown, steep, undrained, and badly eroded. |
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Lagunitas Fire Trail (MMWD) |
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7/21/00, CVR: The MMWD has abandoned this trail, although it is not signed as closed. Much of it is heavily overgrown, although it apparently has its fans who keep it minimally passable. Sections are very steep. |
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6/12/06, Ron Moore & CVR: Most of this route was never properly constructed. This past winter, a large mud slide, thirty feet wide and very long, covered a part of the initial descent from the fire road. The way down next to Carson Falls is just a steep scramble over rocks. The route should probably be modified to reduce traffic in the wet areas used by yellow-legged frogs for breeding. From the bottom of the upper fall down to the redwoods there is really no trail. I received an October 2004 report of fallen trees six inches in diameter across trail, and of a slide having taken out 15 feet of trail, all in the area of the redwoods. |
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1/3/01, CVR: This route is steep and unmaintained. In connection with relocating and rebuilding Hidden Meadow Trail, the MMWD has closed the lowermost section of this trail, between Shaver Grade and Hidden Meadow Trail, as redundant. Please do not use this segment. |
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