These are some of the Partnership's accomplishments
over the past few years...
Technical assistance grant from National Park Service Trails
Assistance Program
Siuslaw National Forest permission to flag proposed trail segments
C2C Volunteers logged over 9,000 hours in the field doing route
finding and maintaining route marking since 2003
Received Federal 501 c 3 and Oregon non-profit incorporation status
Negotiated permission agreements for the critical trail links across
lands of the Corvallis Watershed, Oregon State University, College of
Forestry, Starker Forests, Inc., the Farmer family, and Hitselberger
Ranch LLC.
The complete Trail route was submitted to the Siuslaw National Forest
in June 2010
C2C Volunteers put in over 700 hours trail maintenance on existing
Siuslaw National Forest trails plus hundreds of hours on trails in other
national forests in Oregon
The Siuslaw National Forest committed to begin the environmental
assessment (EA) for the trail in FY2011 and accept the route as part of
their trail system (they eventually reversed these commitments and
required a special use permit)
Submitted special use permit application to the Siuslaw National
Forest in January, 2014, for permission to build, maintain, and manage
the eastern half of the trail from Corvallis to Big Elk Campground
Signed the special use permit in July, 2015, completed trail building in June, 2016, and opened the trail in 2017 with signs and maps (with hopes for a broader permit for the rest of the trail in a few years)