Becoming a Big Basin Champion
Starting a giving campaign is a simple way to multiply your impact. Champions help bring Timms Creek Loop closer to opening by inviting their communities to support the restoration of this special place. Whether you want to help build a bridge or restore a section of trail, your campaign can turn shared love for Big Basin into real progress on the ground.
Bridge Champions
Launch a campaign to help build one of the bridges needed to restore access along Timms Creek Loop. Bridge Champions invite their community to help fund a crossing and, once a campaign goal is reached, the bridge can be named for the group with a commemorative plaque in Big Basin.
Trail Champions
Launch your very own campaign to help restore the trail itself and support the work needed to open nearly five miles of access through Big Basin’s redwoods, creeks, and quiet forest corridors. Trail Champions bring people together to help move the whole effort forward, one step at a time.
Want to see where the bridges are and how they fit into the bigger picture?
See Champions in Action
Bridge and Trail Champions are already bringing people together to support Timms Creek Loop. Visit our community page to see current Champion campaigns, find one that inspires you, or support someone you know.
Need Help Starting Your Campaign?
When you start a campaign, you won’t have to do it alone. We’ll share resources to help you get started, including photos, messages, and tools you can use to invite others to give and grow your campaign.
Just Want to Support Timms Creek Loop Directly?
You can still make a direct gift to help open Timms Creek Loop. Your donation supports the work needed to clear the trail, build bridges, and restore access through one of Big Basin’s most beloved landscapes.
The Story
Learn about the history of Timms Creek Loop, why this restoration matters, and how supporters like you are helping bring people back to the redwoods.
Discover what made this beloved trail such an important part of the Big Basin experience, how the CZU Fire changed the landscape, and what it will take to welcome visitors back.
The Progress
Follow restoration updates, photos, videos, and field notes as crews clear trails, build bridges, and restore access throughout the trail corridor.
See the work happening on the ground—from bridge construction and trail repairs to habitat recovery—as Timms Creek Loop moves step-by-step toward opening.
The Future
Be among the first to receive project milestones, volunteer opportunities, and stories from the field as Timms Creek Loop moves closer to opening.
Sign up to receive occasional updates and celebrate key milestones with us as we work toward opening the trail during Big Basin's 125th anniversary year in 2027.