USFS considering Kingsbury trail improvements

The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is asking for public input on a proposal to reconstruct the Kingsbury Stinger Trail near Kingsbury Grade.

The Stinger Trail runs approximately 2.75 miles from Genoa Peak Road to Terrace View Drive on lower Kingsbury Grade and is open to all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles and mountain bikes. The trail is steep in places, is prone to erosion, crosses private land for approximately 280 feet on the lower segment and no longer meets current Forest Service standards for safety and sustainability.

The proposed project would reroute excessively steep trail segments, install speed control features, improve sightlines along the full length of the trail, install measures to prevent erosion and improve water quality and reroute the section of the trail that crosses private land.

The intersection with the Tahoe Rim Trail would be relocated to prevent motor vehicles from trespassing onto the TRT.

Project work could begin this summer. Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association and other interested volunteers will help with construction.

Comments should be received by April 3. For more info, go online or contact Jacob Quinn at 530.543.2609 or jmquinn@fs.fed.us.