Bay Area Barns and Trails (BABT) assists landowners and land managers with preservation and maintenance of publicly accessible barns, stables, pastures, staging areas, horse camps, and trails throughout Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma Counties.

Bay Area Barns and Trails was incorporated as a California non-profit corporation in November 1999. Since 2000 BABT has helped conservation minded equestrians preserve and restore natural areas and wildlife habitat, maintain parks and public open space, equestrian facilities, trails and trailheads by awarding approximately $510,000 in matching funds to thirty-nine land trusts, agencies and/or equestrian organizations.

With these awards BABT continues our mission preserving and protecting public access to stables and trails in the Bay Area.

• Access Adventure: A grant from BABT is helping to provide equipment to maintain the publicly accessible trails and equestrian areas at Rush Ranch.
• Alma Equine: A BABT grant is helping to provide a scholarship fund to 3 students for 2 months, exposing youth with limited financial resources to trail riding.
• California Riding Club: A grant from BABT will help sponsor a year-long, weekly riding club membership for two underprivileged children.
• Giant Steps: Funding from BABT will help build a transportable wheelchair accessible mounting block for a pilot trail ride program on public lands.
• Marin Stables and Trails: Materials and labor for environmental improvements between the paddocks and seasonal creek to minimize stable and horse debris from entering the creek.
• Sonoma Ecology Center: Trail maintenance equipment at Sugarloaf Ridge State Park for the trail teams and volunteers.
• Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods: Tools for use by the volunteer trail crew for work at Armstrong Redwoods SNR & Austin Creek SRA to make the trails accessible to equestrians and other users.
• V-O-Cal: October multi-use trail work event on the Pacific Peak Trail. This work will connecting the McCosker Loop Trail in Oakland with the Pinehurst Trail in Sibley Volcanic Preserve.
• Alma Equine: Funding for a two month scholarship for three students with limited financial resources. This program includes a trail riding and environmental component.
• East Bay Hills Benefit Ride & Hike: Matching funds for trail improvements and event support.
• Halleck Creek Ranch: Funding to support 6 students, from under-resourced households, for 1 week of summer camp with a trail riding component.
• Point Reyes National Seashore: Funding to help send 2 rangers from the Pt. Reyes Morgan Horse Ranch to the Western States Mounted Patrol training.
• Ridge to Bridge: Event support for the Ridge Trail's fundraiser.
• Linda Rubio Scholarship: Funding to help provide 6 weekly trail riding lessons to financially disadvantaged youth.
• Skyline Wilderness Park: Funding to purchase and install metal pipe paddock panels to expand the number of paddocks and horse camping capacity at SkyLine Wilderness Park.
• Square Peg Foundation: Funding to support environmental improvements to the pasture and shelter. This facility accesses public trails.
• Tri-Cities Horsemen: Funding for building improvements to the Radke/Waterfront Equestrian Arena facility. This facility is open to public access.
• V-O-Cal: Funding for trail work improvements to the Canyon Trail at Fernandez Ranch/Franklin Canyon in Martinez.