Trail Projects

Learn, engage with your community, develop new skills, spend time outdoors, and give back to the Tahoe Rim Trail

Trailhead Kiosk Redesign Project

This ongoing project seeks to redesign and replace the aging fleet of TRT kiosks around the Basin to improve wayfinding/navigation, site identification, place-making, standardization, branding, and the overall user experience of recreating on the TRT.

Trail Sign Inventory and Upgrade

Over the course of five years, this project will inventory, assess, and replace or upgrade more than 1000 signs and markers on the Tahoe Rim Trail.

Hazard Tree Inventory and Mitigation

This four-year project is inventorying, assessing, and mitigating hazards from hazard trees on the entire TRT system in the wake of the unprecedented tree mortality in the Sierra the past few years.

Highway Sign Upgrades

This ongoing project will result in improved signs at locations where the TRT crosses a highway. 

Desolation Sign Post Replacement

This ongoing project will replace nearly two dozen signposts on the PCT/TRT in Desolation.

Visitor Use Monitoring Program

This ongoing project utilizes the TRTA’s fleet of infrared and magnetic trail counters to collect and analyze trail use data all around the trail system. Click here for our 2022 Trail Counter Data Report.