Dry Creek Bridge will be replaced!
Hurrah! The Sierra Nevada Conservancy has authorized the Great Shasta Rail Trail Association to begin work on replacing Dry Creek Bridge using grant funds…
PG&E will bring trucks to the trail
Head’s up Shasta County trail users: The Great Shasta Rail Trail Association has granted a temporary construction easement to PG&E so that they may access their property to remove scrap railroad ties…
Red is Turning to Green on Trail Map
The major trail milestone in 2016 was opening the portion of trail from Pilgrim Creek Road to Esperanza Road. New trail decking on the Mud Creek Bridge…
Trail Concept Plan
The Great Shasta Rail Trail Concept Plan describes the setting, project history, benefits and preliminary designs for the trail, as well as a timeline for trail development…
Great Shasta Rail Trail Opens
The Grand Opening of the Great Shasta Rail Trail (GSRT) was celebrated in two ceremonies held in McCloud and Burney. The ceremonies were sponsored by the Great Shasta Rail Trail Association (GSRTA) and the Shasta Land Trust (SLA)…
Short Film of Phase One of the GSRT
Enjoy this great short film by Christina Schmidlin of Hellikon Studios. It documents the conception and early development of the Great Shasta Rail Trail…
Trail Tour for Forest Service and Shasta County RAC
On November 15th, Forest Service staff and members of the Shasta County Resource Advisory Committee (Shasta RAC) toured a section of the proposed Great Shasta Rail Trail from Burney to Cayton in Shasta County…
Bike-toberfest - Pedaling and Paddling in McCloud
Check out this short video by Christina Schmidlin and Shon Bollock on pedaling and paddling in the McCloud area. Many of the sequences are shot from last year's bike-toberfest event and on the McCloud River…
Engineering Inspections Begin
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 the Great Shasta Rail Trail Association (GSRTA) and the Volcanic Legacy Community Partnership (VLCP) signed an agreement with Schlumpberger Consulting Engineers (SCE) of Mount Shasta to conduct engineering inspections on the proposed Great Shasta Rail Trail (GSRT)…
Rail Trail Lumberjacks
I don't usually get excited about brush removal. But on this particular day, the brush removal would coincide with a a journey down a good portion of the Great Shasta Rail Trail, from Pilgrim Creek Road to Clark Creek Rd near Lake Britton, and a jaunt up the Hambone Spur…
Brandt Case and the GSRT
The recently decided Supreme Court case involving a rails-to-trails project (the Brandt case) does NOT appear to be directly relevant to the Great Shasta Rail Trail Project (GSRT)…
Save Burney Falls Directs Web Visitors to GSRT
Save Burney Falls, the non-profit organization which began the efforts to develop a rail-trail between Burney and the McArthur- Burney Falls Memorial State Park, and led the Core Team in its efforts to develop the 80 mile trail, withdrew from active participation on the Core Team earlier this year…
Great Shasta Rail Trail Association is Formed
The Core Team of the Great Shasta Rail Trail (GSRT) announces the formation of the Great Shasta Rail Trail Association (GSRTA). The Board of Directors of the new non-profit organization met Friday, June 28, 2013…
ASLA Assists Trail Planning
On Saturday, February 9th, two California chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) hosted a day-long design workshop focusing on a variety of design challenges on the Great Shasta Rail Trail…
Stand by Me Train Bridge Scene
The famous train bridge scene in the 1986 movie Stand By Me was filmed on the trestle over Lake Britton, part of the Great Shasta Rail Trail…
Purchase Agreement Signed
Shasta Land Trust (SLT) and our partners proudly announce an agreement has been signed to purchase a railroad right-of-way between McCloud (in Siskiyou County) and Burney (in Shasta County), a property known as the McCloud Railway…