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.



Access Adventure out on the Solano County trails 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.




Friends on the trail with Alma Equine


• California Riding Club: A grant from BABT will help sponsor a year-long, weekly riding club membership for two underprivileged children.



Out on the trail in San Mateo County with California Riding Club


• 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.



Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods volunteers working on the trails at Armstrong Redwoods.


• 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.



Earlier Grants:



Out on the trail with Alma Equine.


• 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.


Always a fun time at the Ridge to Bridge!

• Ridge to Bridge: Event support for the Ridge Trail's fundraiser.

Linda Rubio Scholarship students out on the trails at 5 Brooks Ranch in Olema.

• 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.




Congratulations to our 2023 grant recipients!

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

• Alma Equine: Funding to help sponsor 2 months of weekly 1.5 hour therapeutic trail sessions for 3 students with special needs and limited financial support.
• Caring Cowgirl: Help with funding a series of 6 horsepersonship lessons for families with limited resources.
• East Bay Hills Ride and Hike: Matching grant for event support, with the use of funds going toward multi-use trail projects or equestrian staging.
• Equestrian Center of Walnut Creek: Funding to help repair the Tractor & Storage shed.
• Marin Stables & Trails: Flood mitigation repairs.
• Point Reyes National Seashore Mounted Patrol: Funding to help send 2 rangers/horses to the Western States Mounted Patrol Officer training in Norco, CA.
• Ridge to Bridge 2023: Funding to help support the Ridge Trail’s annual event.
• San Mateo Mounted Patrol Foundation / Sheriff's Activity League: 3 sessions of youth riding activities.
• San Mateo Mounted Patrol Foundation / Pescadero Creek County Park: Storm related repairs enabling equestrians to ride from Jack Brook to other trails in the park.
• Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods: Help with funding for equipment and supplies needed for volunteers to link 2 trails where they connect to regain equestrian access and reopen Austin Creek SRA.
• V-O-Cal: Funding for 3 multi-use trail improvement projects.
Congratulations to our 2022 grant recipients!

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

• East Bay Hills Ride Event support/matching funds. Beneficiaries will include the Ridge Trail, V-O-Cal, the Ivan Dickson program, and trail and equestrian projects of the Tilden Wildcat and Metropolitan Horsemens' Association.

• Halleck Creek Ranch To help fund the development of the Little Six Trail, an additional section of trail with sensory stations to challenge special riders.

• BABT's Trails Challenge Marin County was the winner of our $2,500 grant for trail improvements. The funds will go toward rebuilding the bridges on the Old Springs trail in Southern Marin's GGNRA. Old Springs is on the equestrian route for the Ridge Trail's Ridge to Bridge event that BABT co-sponsors annually so it is a very fitting location.

• We Ride Too To help fund the continuation of horse encounters with youth in the Oakland Redwoods at the Sequoia Arena.

• Bay Area Ridge Trail: Co-sponsor of the Ridge to Bridges event



Equestrians enjoying the Ridge to Bridge Ride

• San Mateo Mounted Patrol Foundation & Sheriff’s Activity League: Program support to sponsor 3 two day sessions of youth horse riding activities at Wunderlich Park with Chaparral Ranch.



High School students on the trails with the MPF/SAL program at Wunderlich Park

• Volunteers for Outdoor California: Volunteer support and trail improvements at 3 of these locations - Napa’s Moore Creek, Santa Clara’s Sanborn Park, Solano Land Trust’s Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space and Painted Rock in John Muir Land Trust.
• We Ride Too: Program support - BABT funds will help support 5 equestrian sessions for a group of 10-15 youth.


We Ride Too's program at Oakland's Seqouia Arena. This grant honors the memory of our late Board member Marilynn Terstegge. Marilynn was an East Bay equestrian who gave so much to the horse community and youth programs!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2021 GRANT RECIPIENTS!

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

• Marin Horse Council: Tools and materials to maintain an equestrian trail through San Geronimo Commons linking to County Open Space, and installation of hitching posts and mounting blocks.
• San Mateo County Regional Parks Foundation: Funding to re-rocking a section of the Upper Clarkia Trail in Edgewood Natural Preserve to increase trail user safety.
• Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods: Equipment and supplies to help to rehabilitate 10 miles of fire damaged trails in Austin Creek SRA and Armstrong Woods SNR.
• Tilden Wildcat Horsemen's Association: Matching grant for the East Bay Hills Trails Benefit multi-use annual event for equestrians and hikers. Funds will go toward trail projects or equestrian staging.


Equestrians enjoying the East Bay Hills Trails Benefit Ride.

• Town of Woodside: Funding for labor and materials required for stabilization of slope, drainage infrastructure, tree removal, trail surfacing on the Mountain Home Road Trail extension.
• BABT Trails Challenge: Congratulations to San Mateo County for the most miles logged and winning a $2500 multi-use trail improvement grant! Bay Area Barns and Trails (BABT) is communicating with San Mateo County Parks Foundation to determine a suitable project.


Gorgeous photos of San Mateo County by Rachel Miura.

• Bay Area Ridge Trail - Co-sponsor of the Ridge to Bridges event
• Diablo Equestrian Heritage Association - Trail obstacle training course to increase safety by exposing horses to obstacles that may be found on the trail.


Great work from DEHA on their trail course project!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2020 GRANT RECIPIENTS!


• Chaparral Corporation : Repair Bercut arena in Golden Gate Park.


Bercut Arena in Golden Gate Park.

• Friends of Huddart Wunderlich Parks : Education program to help visitors learn about trail etiquette/safety using a mini horse, as a park ambassador & teacher.
• Orinda Horsemen’s Association : Education program to help visitors learn about trail etiquette/safety using a mini horse, as a park ambassador & teacher.
• Sonoma County Parks Foundation : Equestrian parking lot construction at Helen Putnam Park.


Riders at Helen Putnam Park.

• Access Adventure: Access Adventure: Maintenance and repairs on the equestrian facilities at Rush Ranch.


Access Adventure: Maintenance and repairs on the equestrian facilities at Rush Ranch.

• Concord Mt. Diablo Trail Ride Association: Manure management, cement manure pads.


CMDTRA's brand new manure pad.

• Daily Acts: Workshop with Alayne Bickle to teach water quality and best practices for equestrian and confined animal facilities.
• Halleck Creek Ranch : Halleck Creek Ranch: Gutters and French drain to filter and divert contaminated water away from the creek.


A problem area to be improved at Halleck Creek Ranch.

• Marin Stables and Trails: Culvert replacement across the creek.
• Pt.Reyes Morgan Horse Ranch: Facility and fencing repairs along the Morgan Horse Trail.
• Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: Construction of a new multi-use, horse friendly, trail at Taylor Mountain Regional Park.


Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: Construction of a new multi-use, horse friendly, trail at Taylor Mountain Regional Park.

• Volunteers for Outdoor California: Organizational support.



In addition to the above grants, in 2020 BABT has helped support the Bay Area Ridge Trail and has assisted others with Special Circumstance grants.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2019 GRANT RECIPIENTS!
• Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation : Multi-use trail improvements at Helen Putnam Park.
• Halleck Creek Ranch : Pasture management and water quality improvements.



2019 Ridge to Bridge Ride

• Bay Area Ridge Trail: Co-sponsor of the 2019 Ridge to Bridge event.
• San Mateo County Parks Foundation: Funds to assist with the Towne Creek Bridge replacement in Pescadero Creek County Park.
• NCEFT: Funding for trail construction at NCEFT’s facility in Woodside.
• Access Adventure: Funding to build a shade structure over hitching area near the wheelchair ramp & platform.
• Ocean Riders of Marin: Matching grant for drainage and construction of a covered arena.
• Rincon Riders: Continued drainage work and planting trees to protect the land & make it an all weather facility.
• TWHA: East Bay Hills Trails Benefit Ride. This event benefits the Bay Area Ridge Trail, V-O-Cal and other East Bay trail projects


• V-O-Cal: Multi-use trail improvement projects at Livermore Sycamore Grove Park, Mt. Diablo State Park and East Avenue Park in Hayward.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2018 GRANT RECIPIENTS!


Friends of Bear Creek Stables Drainage Project – Lower Arena and Tie Stall/Visitor Area.

• Bear Creek Stables: Drainage system and facility improvements.


• Halleck Creek Ranch: Pasture management and water quality improvements.



Pine Ridge Association's project to implement a reliable water source for horses and wildlife.

• Pine Ridge/Henry Coe State Park: Develop and maintain back county water resources for horses and wildlife.


• Rincon Riders: Drainage and water quality work.


• Tri-Valley Conservancy: Map to connect equestrians, and other users, to trails and parks in the Tri-Valley.


Fire damage at Rincon

• Rincon Riders, Santa Rosa: Support to address drainage and environmental concerns. This facility was damaged in the 2017 fires.



East Bay Hills Benefit Ride

• Tilden Wildcat Horseman's Association: Support for East Bay Hills Benefit Ride Event. This event benefits the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council, Volunteers for Outdoor California, and other East Bay trail projects.



Trail Building at Skyline

• Volunteers for Outdoor California: Skyline Wilderness Park: Trail building. This V-O-Cal project had 100+ volunteers! Among other things, these hard workers built a rock wall and constructed 800 feet of new trail that replaced an old section of the Skyline Trail prone to flooding and erosion.



Hot work at Shiloh

• Volunteers for Outdoor California: Shiloh Ranch Regional Park: Trail building. This V-O-Cal project re-routed a section of trail damaged during the 2017 fires. Hot and hard work, the temperatures reached the low 100’s in the afternoon. Thank you to all who helped!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2017 GRANT RECIPIENTS!



CMDTRA arena project

• Concord Mt. Diablo Trail Ride Association: Funding for new sand in their arena, used by many horse clubs, near Clayton CA.
• Diablo Heritage Equestrian Association: Reconstruction of bleachers at the CMDTRA arena on Mt. Diablo. The arenas at the Concord Mt. Diablo Trail Ride Association, high above Clayton on Mt. Diablo have been a favorite destination for East Bay equestrians for decades. 2017 BABT grants will hep provide new sand for a better arena surface, and also, via the Diablo Equestrian Heritage Association, will enable safe reconstruction of bleachers.




Riders at Halleck Creek Ranch

• Halleck Creek Ranch: Funds to assist implementation of a manure and storm water management plan to protect local streams near their stables, which offer therapeutic riding programs in Nicasio.
• Ocean Riders of Marin: Matching funds for their ongoing progress towards construction of a new covered arena, which will enable more year-round programing at their stable on GGNRA land near Muir Beach.




Taylor Mountain project

• Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: Taylor Mountain, near Santa Rosa, is one of the more recent additions to the Bay Area's open Spaces. In 2013, Volunteers for Outdoor California, with BABT's support, helped to build new trails there, including this bridge. In 2016, V-O-Cal returned to help improve trails, and the 2017 BABT grant will provide matching funds for 8 miles of new trail which will open up new sections of the mountain for hikers, equestrians and mountain bikers.




Alambique Trail project

• San Mateo County Parks Foundation: To assist with the re-route of the storm-damaged Alambique Trail in Wunderlich Park in Woodside. Like many Bay Area Parks, Wunderlich Park in Woodside suffered significant storm damage last winter, which closed down the Alambique Trail , a key equestrain connection in the park. In the Spring, a BABT grant helped to re-open the trail, but our new grant will enable a more ambitious and more permanent re-route of this important trail.




Public arena at the Radke-Martinez Shoreline Regional Park

• Tri-Cities Horsemen’s Association: Matching funds for perimeter fence panels and an announcer’s booth supporting their efforts to save the public arena at the Radke-Martinez Shoreline Regional Park.




Multi-use trail bridge connecting Livermore’s Sycamore Grove Park with EBRPD’s Del Valle Regional Open Space

• Tri-Valley Trail Conservancy: Matching funds for the construction of a multi-use trail bridge connecting Livermore’s Sycamore Grove Park with EBRPD’s Del Valle Regional Open Space. This artist's conception shows the new bridge that BABT's grant will help the Tri-Valley Trail Conservancy construct. This bridge will establish a multi-use trails connection between Livermore's Sycamore Grove Park, where BABT funds helped Bay Area Barns and Trails build new trail earlier this year, to Del Valle Regional Park.
• Access Adventure: Renovation of paddock shelters – rubber mats and concrete for stable footings.
• Alto Bowl Horseowner’s Association: Pasture preservation, invasive plant removal.
• Orinda Horseman’s Association: Roofing and siding materials to repair two stall barn, grain and hay rooms.
• San Mateo County Parks & Rec Foundation: Trail repair repairs to the Alambique Trail in Wunderlich Park.
• Tilden Wildcat Horsemen’s Association: East Bay Hills Benefit Ride matching grant ranging from $2,500 - $5,000.
• V-O-CAL: Trail construction at Sycamore Grove
• Bay Area Ridge Trail: Co-sponsor of 2017 Ridge to Bridge event.

Grantee V-O-CAL trail construction at Sycamore Grove




CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2016 GRANT RECIPIENTS!

• Bear Creek Stables: Gutters and water quality project.
• Pt Reyes Morgan Horse Ranch: Construction/building maintenance project. Please "like" their Facebook page! Save Morgan Horse Ranch
• Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: Multi-use trail construction at Helen Putnam Regional Park. See more about their matching grant challenge.
• Ocean Riders of Marin: Covered arena matching funds. (pending)
• San Ramon Valley Horsemen: Manure bunker construction at Park staging area in Livermore, CA. (pending)





• Bear Creek Stables: Safe fencing for fire/emergency holding area.





• McNee Ranch: Trail building tools.





• Tilden Wildcat Horsemen’s Association: Support for East Bay Hills Benefit Ride.
• Presidio Riding Club: Cross tie area to use for outreach programs.





• V-O-CAL: Support for trail construction in two locations, Lime Ridge and Taylor Mountain.



•	Access Adventure: Stall mats and sidewalk area improvement for ADA.
•	San Mateo County Parks Foundation: Wunderlich Park Riding Ring Footing Project.



•	Bay Area Ridge Trail: Co-sponsor of 2016 Ridge to Bridge event.

2015 GRANT PROGRAM

Bay Area Barns and Trails (BABT) is pleased to announce that after review and research, the Board of Directors selected 9 projects from 5 counties for grant awards totaling $26,500.00. With these awards BABT continues our mission of preserving and protecting public access to stables and trails in the Bay Area.



•	Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation: Multi-use trail building on Taylor Mountain. To learn more about Sonoma Regional Parks Foundation, click here.
•	Oakland City Stables: Facility improvement grant for manure bunkers. You can assist in their effort to support the renovation of Oakland City Stables. They are working away and need your support to renew this incredible jewel in the Oakland Hills! Please click here for more details.



•	Bay Area Ridge Trail: Co-sponsor of 2015 Ridge to Bridge event. Sign up for the 2016 Ridge to Bridge event! Click here for more details.
•	Marin Stables & Trails: To assist with expanding and covering the round pen, with the goal of increasing community outreach programs and environmental improvements to the creek.
•	Ocean Riders of Marin: Improvements for re-grading the turnout arena and moving the fence-line, for the protection of the local Redwood Crek watershed and to allow for the future Dias “safety connector” trail. We congratulate Ocean Riders on their new 10 year lease with the GGNRA! There is much work to be done, please help support Ocean Riders. Click here for more details.



•	San Mateo County Parks Foundation: Replace the retaining wall and improve trail conditions near the junction of the Alambique and Loop Trails in Wunderlich County Park. For more information or to support SMCPF, click here.



•	Tilden Wildcat Horsemen’s Association: Matching funds to help support the East Bay Hills Trails Benefit Ride, which supports the Bay Area Ridge Trail and volunteer trail maintenance on East Bay multi-use trails.
•	Trail Partners: Educational campaign and safety awareness for equestrians, bikers and hikers on public lands in Marin – Tails and Tires workshops. For more information about Trail Partners, or to make a donation, click here.



•	Volunteers for Outdoor California: To construct a new multi-use trail at Franklin Canyon, connecting to the Bay Area Ridge Trail in Fernandez Ranch and Pinole Watershed, benefiting the local and regional community. You can help support V-O-Cal by making a donation, for more details, click here.

OUR 2014 GRANT PROGRAM INCLUDED GRANTS TO THE FOLLOWING:

•	Alta Bowl Horse Owners Association: $2500 for Horse Hill water project.
•	San Ramon Valley Horsemen’s Association: $625 to build a manure bunker at a trail head. Learn more about SRVHA.
•	Ocean Riders of Marin: $5000 for environmental protection projects (pending). Learn more, or to help support Ocean Riders.
•	Marin Stables & Trails: $5000 for arena project. Learn more, or to help support Marin Stables and Trails.
•	Tilden Wildcat Horsemen’s Association: $5000 for support of education/outreach at the East Bay Hills Trails Benefit Ride. Learn more, or to help support EBHTBR.
•	Friends of Bear Creek Stables: $2500. Support for an enlarged site plan.
•	Santa Clara Horsemen’s Association: $2500. Trail improvement project for a water trough on the Bay Area Ridge Trail.
•	Marin Stables & Trails: $5000 for arena project. Learn more, or to help support Marin Stables and Trails.
•	Community Horse Advocacy Program: $500: Trail improvement project to repair and add railings to a bridge on the Crystal Springs Trail in Huddart Park.