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Comments Needed for 2022 Downieville and Quincy Trailwork
Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship (SBTS) has applied for four project grants this year and need your comments to CA-OHV on both so we can receive the grants and continue providing #dirtmagic to the...
Yuba Expeditions Downieville and SBTS: The Next Chapter
By Mike Ferrentino - Prolific writer, former Yuba employee, and founding member of SBTS What a long strange trip it has been! It started with some friends in the early 1990s who had an idea about...
Lost and Found is Back!
Friends, with great happiness and a huge exhalation of relief we are proud to announce that after a painful two-year hiatus, the legendary Lost and Found ride is returning for 2022! Mark your...
Lost and Found Gravel Festival Returns for 2022
SBTS Partners With Breakaway Promotions Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship has announced that the Lost and Found Gravel Festival will return in 2022, in partnership with long-time cycling production...
Downieville Classic Postponed Until 2023
25th Anniversary Will Be An All-Time Celebration The Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship has announced that the 2022 Downieville Classic, scheduled to run from August 4-7, 2022, has been postponed...
Our Forests Are Open – Let’s Get Back to It!
The Dixie Fire is nearly contained thanks to the amazing work of fire fighters, forestry technicians and support personnel and our recent, much-needed rains! Blue skies are back and the forest is...
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Teams With SBTS And Bike Industry Greats For Disaster Relief
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company has teamed with Paul Component Engineering, Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship (SBTS) and other notable cycling industry brands to build a pair of fully custom bicycles to...
Comments Needed for 2021 Downieville and Quincy Trailwork
Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship (SBTS) has applied for four project grants this year and need your comments to CA-OHV on both so we can receive the grants and continue providing #dirtmagic to the...
Shimano North America Bicycle Named 2020 Partner of the Year
Every year SBTS gives special recognition to a partner that goes above and beyond to help us create Dirt Magic, and we are very excited to announce Shimano North America as the SBTS Partner of the...
SBTS Celebrates 100 Miles of New Singletrack Built
It all started back in 2003 with the purchase of a chainsaw and a desire to keep trails in Downieville open and passable for the public. Seventeen years later, in 2020 SBTS celebrated its 100th mile...
Connected Communities Small Town Stories Celebrate 2020 Victories
Over the last few months, SBTS Executive Director Greg Williams has racked up countless hours behind the steering wheel crisscrossing the Lost Sierra, meeting with locals and key stakeholders to...
Taylorsville – first stop on the Connected Communities Tour
Connected Communities – an SBTS legacy project of joining 15 communities across three rural Northern California counties by trail – is officially up and running. After months of preparation, SBTS...
A New Trails Renaissance
If there's one thing learned from our newfound reality, it's that trails are an essential part of human existence. As long as organisms have roamed Earth under their own power, there have been...
25th Annual Downieville Classic Canceled
With great sadness the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship announces the cancelation of the 25th Annual Downieville Classic. Although the decision to cancel was agonizing due to the impact on racers,...
Santa Cruz Bicycles Manufactures and Donates PPE for Lost Sierra First Responders
(Downieville, CA) April 30, 2020 - The Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, in partnership with Yuba Expeditions bike shop and The Lure Resort in Downieville today announced a generous donation from...