We’re thrilled to announce that the Canada PCT Entry Permit program has restarted! After being paused since 2020, Canada Border Services Agency, PCTA, and the U.S. Forest Service worked together to restart it. We thank everyone involved for restarting this special program and facilitating it on an ongoing basis—crossing into ... Read more
If you’re lucky enough to visit, you’ll know how special Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is. From the deep river canyons, old growth forests, stratovolcanoes, and alpine ridges, it’s all worth preserving. This national forest encompasses and protects Washington State’s western Cascade Mountains from Mount Rainier north to Canada. The Pacific ... Read more
On Saturday, April 29, PCTA staff, board members, volunteers, and an audience from the Pacific Crest Trail community gathered at the Sierra 2 Center in Sacramento, California for this year’s Annual Membership Meeting. At the meeting, PCTA Acting Executive Director and CEO Megan Wargo, Board Chair Kevin Bacon... Read more
The Trail Skills College program is PCTA’s premiere trail maintenance educational program. Every year, PCTA hosts a series of events along the trail where new and experienced volunteers and outdoor professionals can learn critical skills for designing, building and maintaining backcountry trails. But what does it look like to take ... Read more
This winter’s extreme snowfall in California has everyone talking. While thru-hikers wonder about the closures in Southern California and traveling through the Sierra in high snow, and residents of trail towns scramble to shovel out, PCTA reckons with the impact of a historic winter on the upcoming season of trail ... Read more
On March 3, the USDA Forest Service took the rare action of closing the entire San Bernardino National Forest in California—adding to a previous closure of Mount San Jacinto State Park and Wilderness. The closures included more than 800,000 acres of land and 212 miles of the Pacific Crest ... Read more
Hank “The Owl” Magnuski looked at his watch. “Maybe some hikers will be passing through. Let’s check.”
It was late morning near the end of July, and the temperature was already climbing into the 90s. Associate Director of Philanthropy Mark Waters jumped into the passenger seat, and together they waited, ... Read more
In the face of ever-increasing wildfire threats and a changing climate, the iconic Giant Sequoia groves of the Sierra Nevada are in the crosshairs.
“Six of the seven largest wildfires in California history have occurred in the past two years, and in that period, up to nearly one fifth of ... Read more
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