This past weekend ARTA co-hosted an amazing trail day with a group called Volunteers for Outdoor California or V-O-Cal. V-O-Cal is an organization that organizes volunteer trail workdays for a variety of public land management agencies that have recreational trails. V-O-Cal events are a combination of social fun and serious trailwork. Volunteers (75 to [...]
Fuel reduction work has begun along the Arnold Rim Trail, south of Avery-Sheep Ranch Road in San Domingo Canyon. Heavy equipment is actively thinning overcrowded young trees, masticating brush and fallen trees, and widening fuel breaks on Stanislaus National Forest land. Intensive work will continue in San Domingo Canyon for several months and, [...]
This past weekend, Arnold Rim Trail Association, partnered with the US Forest Service, Calaveras Ranger District to host and fund a three-day Trail Care Workshop on the Stanislaus National Forest, bringing in two professional instructors from IMBA Trail Solutions to train 12 volunteers from the Ebbetts Pass corridor alongside 4 Forest Service staff. This [...]
The Arnold Rim Trail Volunteer Trail Maintenance day was off the hook with 21 volunteers on a Saturday morning. The group hiked out 1.64 miles to the creek crossing at Cowell Creek, and worked back to Post 31. Absolutely great morning with trail friends brushing, and raking the trails, cutting back lots of [...]
In the Spring the spectacular bright red Snow Plant marks the end of winter and is a unique color change in the green forest of the Sierra. Called a saprophyte in the past, snow plant, pine drops, candy stick, coral root orchid and others are now identified as mycoheterotrophs…a plant that does not [...]
It's a Wrap — The 2nd Annual Run the Rim is in the books. 191 runners. 167 finishers. Five distances. One finish line celebration at White Pines Lake. From the 5K loop around White Pines Lake to the 50K point-to-point traverse of the full Arnold Rim — 31 miles, 5,500 feet of climbing, three drainages, [...]
Join retired National Park Service Rangers, Nancy Muleady-Mecham and Mary Anne Carlton as they share their extensive knowledge of the ecology and natural history of the Arnold Rim Trail and this area. ART Natural History Hikes with Nancy Muleady-Mecham, PhD Join Biology Professor Nancy Muleady-Mecham (Doc Nancy) for a stroll along the Arnold [...]
We wanted to provide a quick update on the state of trails on the Arnold Rim Trail System. We're making excellent progress out there. A big thank you to the Forest Service and all of the ARTA sawyers and volunteers who have been actively working to clear the trails. There are still trees [...]
There are many trees down across the Arnold Rim Trail due to the recent storm. Please use caution when accessing the trail system and check Trailforks for current conditions, photos, and updates before heading out. The Forest Service and ARTA volunteers are actively working to clear the trails, but it will take some [...]
UPDATE: Thank you to the many ARTA trail lovers who joined us on January 8th, 2026 - 6PM-7PM for our Arnold Rim Trail Community Update. Click here to view Our Planning Resources Page, which includes slides from our presentation, maps and documents referenced during our meeting. To view the map of the USFS proposed action, [...]
