The Horse Meadow Trail (also known as the Armstrong Pass Trail) is a feeder trail into the Tahoe Rim Trail, a major destination on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. Improving this trail as well as access to the trail will allow for more users to utilize the trail at different points. Providing better access to the middle of this trail system improves user experience by reducing traffic at some of the more popular, busier trailheads in the area such as Big Meadow and Kingsbury South.
The Tahoe Rim Trail Association would construct the new sections of trail as well as decommission the old sections. The lower section is a reroute of a fall line section of a decommissioned logging road that currently functions as the trail. This section has a particularly steep grade and has experienced severe erosion over the past 5 years. The upper section is a reroute of the existing foot trail that will add several switchbacks and extend others. This will allow for a gentler grade and will avoid major rock obstacles that exist in the current alignment.
To improve access to the trail by members of the public two metal retroreflective signs would be installed on California Highway 89 pending approval from Caltrans.
The trail is located on NFS lands in Alpine County, CA west of FS31051 on TllN 18E (section 1).
