#Flume friends install#

The land will be transferred from the Nevada Land Trust to the Forest Service later this year, putting the entire trail in public hands for the first time in decades.

Rose Highway all the way to the Tunnel Creek Trail. Volunteers from TAMBA, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association, and Friends of Incline Trails built the missing link of the trail through that section of property in Fall 2016, opening the trail from Mt. In December 2015, David and Cheryl Duffield donated 18.6 acres of land along the trail, including the historic bull wheel, to Nevada Land Trust, a nationally-accredited nonprofit conservation land trust based in Reno whose work includes a portion of the Tahoe Basin. More than 2,000 volunteer hours were put into the trail improvements. The restoration work was led by the Friends of Incline Trails in partnership with the Forest Service, the Tahoe Rim Trail Association and the Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association (TAMBA). It will also help fund the transfer of the historic bullwheel (located nearby the trail) from the Nevada Land Trust to the US Forest Service.

#Flume friends install#

This new designation was received in May 2017, paving the way for Tahoe Fund to secure a grant for $130,000 from the Recreation Trails Program that helped improve the trail, build a retaining wall in a particularly erosive area, and install interpretive and way-finding signage. The Tahoe Fund, working with the Friends of Incline Trails, funded and secured the necessary environmental approvals to make it an official Forest Service trail. In this status, we were unable to add way-finding and interpretive signage, or do much-needed trail reconstruction and maintenance work. While a well-used trail by many, it was not recognized as an official trail by the Forest Service until recently. Its easy and flat terrain makes it the most family-friendly biking and hiking trail in the Basin.

Rose Highway to the Tunnel Creek Trail above Incline Village. The Incline Flume Trail, known as the “other flume” trail, runs from Mt. Partners: USFS, Nevada Land Trust, Friends of Incline Trails, TAMBA, Tahoe Rim Trail Association, NV State Parks