Ways You Can Help Restore Timms Creek Loop
There are three ways to help return nearly five miles of trails at Big Basin.
Whether you want to make a direct gift, rally your community around rebuilding a bridge, or sponsor a section of trail, every action helps reconnect people to Big Basin’s redwood landscape.
Together, we can help people venture farther into a new Big Basin — one crossing, one bridge, and one step at a time.
Become a Champion
Invite friends, family, coworkers, or your hiking group to join you. Starting a giving campaign is a simple way to multiply your impact.
Your goal can be to sponsor a bridge or a section of the trail, or to support the work needed to bring Timms Creek Loop back.
Support a Champion
Support someone who is already helping bring the trail back.
Give to a Trail Champion’s campaign and help their friends, family, coworkers, or community move closer to their goal. Every gift helps rebuild crossings, restore access, and bring Timms Creek Loop closer to reopening.
Donate to Open 5 Miles
Make a gift to help reopen this beloved trail and guide people back into the heart of Big Basin.
Your donation supports the work needed to clear the trail, rebuild bridges, and restore nearly five miles of access through Big Basin’s redwoods, creeks, and quiet forest corridors.
See How Big Basin is Coming Back
Timms Creek Loop is more than a trail. For generations, it has invited people to experience the heart of Big Basin, leading visitors beneath towering redwoods, across rushing creeks, and through some of the park's most peaceful forest landscapes. For many, it is where lifelong memories were made and connections to the redwoods began.
In 2020, the CZU Fire dramatically changed this landscape, damaging trails, destroying bridges, and closing access to much of California's oldest state park. Today, Big Basin is steadily coming back to life. Trails are reopening, forests are regenerating, and visitors are once again returning to experience this extraordinary landscape. Timms Creek Loop is an important part of that recovery.
Crews are now working to restore nearly five miles of trail and rebuild 22 bridges and crossings along the Timms Creek and Sunset trail corridors. Once complete, Timms Creek Loop will reconnect visitors to one of Big Basin's most iconic backcountry experiences while linking together the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail and Sunset Trail to create a renewed loop through the park's recovering redwood forest.
As the next major segment of the Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail planned to reopen since the CZU Fire, Timms Creek Loop will mark a significant milestone in Big Basin's ongoing recovery. Its planned reopening in Fall 2027, during Big Basin's 125th anniversary year, will symbolize not only the restoration of a beloved trail, but the resilience and renewal of the park itself.
Explore the story behind the restoration, follow progress in the field, and stay connected as Timms Creek Loop moves one step closer to welcoming visitors back to the redwoods.
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, rebuild crossings, 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 reopening.
The Future
Be among the first to receive project milestones, volunteer opportunities, and stories from the field as Timms Creek Loop moves closer to reopening.
Sign up to receive occasional updates and celebrate key milestones with us as we work toward reopening the trail during Big Basin's 125th anniversary year in 2027.
