Tahoe Side To-Do List

Posted: October 14, 2026 | Author: Rubicon Ronin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: FOTR, RTF, To-Dos | Leave a comment

For more than a decade, I’ve maintained and shared (internally) a Tahoe Side To-Do List. I’m on the Tahoe Side all the time and see things we could be doing on every trip. Over the years, I’ve shared this list with FOTR and RTF. I’ve reached out to local clubs with individual needs. Sometimes I got a good response but most of the time the list went largely ignored.

I had to look it up. I can find Tahoe Side To-Do Lists since 2012. One from 2007.

Publishing this list could be problematic if the anti-OHV crowd got a hold of it and used it to argue to close the trail because it was not being maintained. After sharing the list with a local club one year, they published it and I had to ask them to take it down.

The time has come to go public with the Tahoe Side To-Do List. I’m hoping this sparks both conversation about what needs to be done and how to best work through the issues. The annual FOTR meeting has been lackluster at best. We should at least be discussing this list and prioritizing what gets done first.

First is a downloadable version, and then I tried to copy and paste it. The copy and paste didn’t work. I had to simplify the list posted here on the website, but the download has details about each “To-Do”.

McKinney-Rubicon Springs Road To-Do’s

Entrance at residential                       

-Signage                                                                                        

-Snow Wall Issue                                                          

-Snow stakes                                                      

Logs piled on edge of trail

Thin foliage along paved road                                         

ATV Rental Staging/Parking Area

-Logs piled

-Rock pile

Noonchester Mine Road     (14N43A)

Potholes in pavement

Move/place rocks to harden edge

Bridge over McKinney Creek       

Tahoma Staging Area      

-Winter warning signs

-Rounds need to be removed

-Harden north edge of trail along staging area

-No parking signs                               

-Establish “Staging Area”   

Kiosk

Oil Spill depository                            

Bathrooms            

Buck Lake Trail (14N40)

Water Bars (Rolling Dips)  

#8     Arizona Crossing

#18    Bad rolling dip       

Between #23 and #24

Arizona Crossing near pond

Pond, current outlet

Ellis Trail (03-04-12-05)    

Arizona Crossing                     

Shelf Road, Miller Creek

Potato Patch

Barker Meadow Trail (16E76)

Hummer Bend       

-Bypasses

Play Step (actually a bypass)

Bypasses        

Helicopter Flat

The Step     

Observation Point                                                                  

Log Water Bar                                                             

Upper Hairpin Turn                                     

Lower Water Crossing                        

Cadillac Hill                                                                          

Lower Hairpin                                            

Graves

Miller Creek                                                                

Mud issues between Miller Creek and the Springs

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So, there it is. If you’d like to help take on any of these issues, reach out to FOTR. If you think I missed something, reach out to me and to FOTR. We’ll get your thoughts on the list.

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The downloadable list needs more detail. I didn’t get all the way to the Springs on that last trip, so not everything has an updated mile marker and GPS location. I will be going to the Springs in a week or so to finish off the list.

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Rubicon Ronin

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