Basin Complex Fire News Today

From routes that have been rebuilt after wildfires to newly constructed singletrack, we can't wait to get trekking on these trails around the country

Thomas J. Story J.D. Simkins  – June 23, 2021 Twelve years after being incinerated, an immensely popular Big Sur hike is finally reopening to the public. The breezy .75-mile jaunt known as the Pfeiffer Falls Trail, which meanders through a dense envelopment of redwoods before winding down a gorge and culminating with awe-inspiring views of a 60-foot waterfall, had been closed since 2008, when the Basin Complex Fire obliterated much of the trail and its infrastructure. Now, a...

Pfeiffer Falls Trail at Big Sur Reopens Friday After 13-Year Closure After a 2008 wildfire destroyed much of the infrastructure of the most popular hiking trail in Big Sur, its taken all these years to complete a $2 million project to replace it all. But now the public will finally get to hike down to Pfeiffer Falls once again, starting Friday. It was a project done in partnership by California State Parks and Save the Redwoods League, and as the Associated Press reports, it involved the replac...

The Pfeiffer Falls Trail will reopened to the public Friday after a 13-year restoration.