FORTAG ( Fort Ord Regional Trail and Greenway) is a thirty mile network of multi-purpose trail
designed to connect communities to open space.
And it - the setting varies all the way around.
Sometimes you're right in there with an existing well developed, well used landscape,
Sometimes you're miles out in the middle of nowhere in places that are beautiful and kind of undiscovered.
And that we're gonna be kind of like the first ones to really show that to the world.
Looking out on the landscape, you mostly see trees
but there's a whole network of mountain biking trails
So that same freshman after a couple of months, they're looking for an adventure or pastime or little bit of
recreation between classes, maybe they have a break, again they can just fall onto the path
Come out to 8th and Gigling, stay on FORTAG, or jump off of FORTAG to this network of really amazing mountain biking trails.
We want people to be able to move on foot or on bike under their own propulsion
through this landscape in a way that enjoys the landscape, that celebrates it, that interprets it
and gets you to where you wanna go.
So FORTAG has been working hand-in-hand with the planners at CSUMB to make sure that
FORTAG incorporates with the campus plans.
And one of the most recent developments to advance the campus planning is building the roundabouts on
the east side of the campus. As we worked with them and looked at the engineering
drawings we talked about slopes, routes, and how FORTAG would intersect with the roundabout
and what you see over my left shoulder is an actual beginning of the trail that
will be the Fort Ord Regional Trail and Greenway.
So the University made sure that the trail at least got started to be built
up the hill. So it's kind of exciting to have the beginning of the trail having already
been built here on East Campus.
So this is a place that we've called Sandmat Hill.
But what's really cool up on this hill is it's got one of the best inland
populations of Sand Gilia, which is this little fella here. This is a federally endangered plant.
At the state level it's threatened. It's a place where we -- that the idea of FORTAG gets you know the
most strongly expressed: connecting people to nature and to open space so
that you can recreate here, you can be here, you can have a trail here, but and
you can see nature, but critically you don't want to be
impacting that nature. So it's a place where we really want to rise to
the challenge of having a trail without... that allows us to enjoy this species
without impacting it.
So we're in that area between the city of Marina and the campus
and the Sand Gilia is one of the rare offerings that's set in this area
that we think FORTAG will open up for folks, where now they might not be
inclined to wander into the the chaparral to discover these things.
When you're working on the reuse of an army base sometimes you've got to have a lot of
imagination to to see you know what this really can be
and you can't not have that imagination because if you don't either nothing will happen
and we'll be left with a giant parking lot forever
or something will happen that won't quite be you know what you might have wanted.
So you have to recognize this landscape is guaranteed to change a lot
in the next in the coming years and we want to engage with that and make it
work for everybody.
If it's the right time of evening you can come up on Hilltop Park
and you have the entire horizon and a view of the Peninsula as the Sun sets.
So we have a really unique resource here and again it's one of
those spots that not a lot of people know is here. We tend to move along the
roads to the commercial centers but FORTAG will bring you to the beach, from the
beach to the population centers, from the population centers just a short walk up
to Hilltop Park to see the sunset and if you're a student then you just
continue your stroll to the Promontory and go home.
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