Upcoming Opportunities

​Visit our web calendar for all of our free public events educational and stewardship events.

Winter 2024
We are in need of a truck!

Since the inception of TCLT, our stewardship team has relied on their personal vehicles to carry out essential tasks like hauling tools, removing green waste, and transporting supplies to project sites. Over time, this has taken a toll—our team’s cars have endured significant wear and tear, impacting their ability to work efficiently. A dedicated vehicle would transform how we care for our 25+ properties, allowing us to better manage tasks, address issues like illegal dumping, and ensure our trails and coastal lands remain accessible and beautiful.

We are reaching out to our community for support to secure a stewardship vehicle. Whether through an in-kind donation of a working truck or financial contributions to help us purchase and maintain a vehicle, your help will make a tangible difference in our ability to protect and enhance the lands we all cherish. Together, we can ensure our stewardship efforts remain sustainable and impactful for years to come.

If you or someone you know is interested in donating a reliable, operational vehicle in good condition, please contact:

[email protected].

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Help us Care for the Coast this Spring at Stewardship Work Days

Come join the TCLT at our Stewardship Work Days, held the first Saturday of the month from 9:30am to noon! As a small nonprofit, we are so thankful for the dedication of our Stewardship Volunteers. They help us restore and preserve native biodiversity by removing invasive plants and help maintain safe and reliable public trails.

There are many opportunities to help steward these special coastal lands. Please email elizabeth@trinidadcoastallandtrust.org to sign up for any or all events!


All events will be held from 9:30 am to noon.

Thank you to our Stewardship Program business sponsors: Forbes & Associates - Sarah Corliss, Trinidad Retreats, Mother Earth Engineering, and Sea Around Us.

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How are we doing? We want to hear from you!

We are reaching out to you, our supporters, to help us reimagine how we more effectively improve public access, increase inclusivity, and enhance coastal ecosystem protection. 
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One important aspect to deepening support for protecting access to the coast is working to ensure that the Trinidad coastline is a safe, welcoming, and inspiring place for everyone, including people of all abilities, racial, ethnic, gender and socioeconomic identities. We envision a future where the faces we see enjoying the coast more fully embody the diversity of our community. We need your input on how to reduce barriers that may be preventing community members from experiencing the coast, and how to prioritize our work - whether it be ADA compliant trails and vistas, inclusive and inspirational coastal education, or habitat protection via conservation easements. 
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We invite you to join us and make your voice heard by completing our Community Input Form! 

(The form is available in both English and Spanish)

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Take the survey / Haz la encuesta

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American Hiking Society volunteers build new crib steps at Tepona Point

The Trinidad Coastal Land Trust is immensely grateful for our newly constructed crib-step trail to the Tepona Point Overlook near Trinidad. During the second week of June 2022, TCLT hosted a group of American Hiking Society (AHS) volunteers, who worked to rebuild the trail and pull invasive plants along Scenic Drive. 

Guided by local trail builder Steffen Allan, the group removed the old and unstable staircase, replacing it with 21 solid crib steps in small group rotations over 5 days. When they weren’t moving dirt and pounding rebar through the new steps, they pulled English ivy and wild radish nearby.

Situated between Houda Point and Luffenholtz Beach, Tepona Point is one of the most dramatic and scenic headlands along the Trinidad coast and is a terrific place to view wildlife and the iconic offshore rocks of the California Coastal National Monument. But the pronounced exposure that contributes to the allure of the overlook also predisposes the trail to erosion and bluff instability. This new trail improvement, however, is a big step towards safer access to this iconic coastal gem.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort of each of the AHS volunteers and staff, our guide Steffen, Sue-meg State Park for providing free camping for  the volunteers, and of course, Bob Battagin, for funding this much-needed coastal access improvement. Check out the team’s great work next time you are enjoying the beautiful Trinidad coastline.

Please always remember that dogs are not allowed at this location, due to the steep, erodible terrain, and to encourage the revegetation of native plants like beach strawberry and tufted hair grass.

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Spring & Summer 2022 Newsletter and 2021 Annual Report

Trinidad Coastal Land Trust recently published our annual newsletter and financial report for 2021. This newsletter contains our Spring and Summer schedule of events, updates about our leadership transition, land conservation projects, and a letter from our new Director. Check it out!

Read more here!

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