Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship Launches Mountains to Meadows Trailfest September 19-22, 2024

July 29, 2024

Come for the trails, stay for the party!

QUINCY, CA /OUTDOOR SPORTSWIRE/ – Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship is launching a new outdoor festival this fall in northern California called Mountains to Meadows Trailfest, a four-day celebration of trails and community to benefit the work of the Stewardship.

Trailfest will be held September 19-22, 2024 at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds in Quincy, California, tucked into the Plumas National Forest, 80 miles northwest of both Truckee and Reno, Nevada. The weekend will serve up a full slate of activities, including two days of optional trailwork with the SBTS Pro Trail Crew on Mount Hough, a Poker Run/Ride, locally led hikes, trail runs and mountain bike and moto rides on some of the best trails in Plumas County, family and late-night rollerskating sessions, adventure films, food trucks, a beverage garden and a rocking line-up of live bands on the main stage, headlined by The Scott Pemberton Band, Boot Juice and the Gold Souls.

Festival passes range in price from $50 per person for trailwork volunteers, to $149 for all-access weekend passes and $699 at the top end for a limited number of VIP passes. Kids under 17 are free, and passes include tent camping for the weekend (upgrades available for hook-ups). Early bird pricing will go increase on August 23, so be sure to lock in your pass before then.

Trailfest is a fundraiser for SBTS, and proceeds from the event will benefit Connected Communities, SBTS’ legacy project to connect 15 mountain towns via a 564-mile multi-use singletrack trail to spur economic revitalization in rural California. The project is already well underway, with various trails under construction or in the environmental review process in Plumas, Sierra, Lassen, Butte, Nevada Counties, as well as Washoe County in Nevada. The initial work has been funded largely through government grants, but completing Connected Communities will require significant fundraising and volunteer labor hours.

“The goal of Connected Communities is to revitalize mountain towns in the Lost Sierra by creating recreation-based economies, using trails as a tool to bring hikers, cyclists, dirt bike riders and equestrians into the towns’ main streets. With Mountains to Meadows, we’re inviting the community to be a part of what we’re building—to help out on the trails, to meet other like-minded folks, to enjoy the recreation opportunities we have here in Quincy and to celebrate another season of trailbuilding with a big party filled with good trails, good times and good people,” said Greg Williams, executive director of Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship.

Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship celebrated its 20th year in 2023, and in that time has built 197 miles of brand new trail, and maintained more than 2,500 miles throughout the Lost Sierra, while engaging thousands of volunteers in more than 131,000 hours of work. Find all the details on the event at quincymountainstomeadows.com. For sponsorship opportunities, reach out to marty@sierratrails.org. For media inquiries, contact nicole@sierratrails.org.