It would be the final funding piece for the long-discussed Sugarloaf Mountain Trail project in Nevada City. The California State Parks Department is recommending that the Federal Government approve over 216-thousand dollars. Erin Tarr is the Co-Executive Director of Bear Yuba Land Trust, which has been working with the city. She says approval next spring or early summer would allow construction to finally begin. She says the project will connect downtown to the top of the mountain…

Tarr says it’s been a very complicated and nearly decade-long process, including how to deal with the homeless camps…

The trail will be about a-mile long, starting at Highway 49 and North Bloomfield Road. Tarr says a parking lot on Coyote Street would also be created, reducing hazardous parking on the side of the road. Nevada City paid 450-thousand dollars for the 35-acre Sugarloaf property in 2011. It wasn’t formally annexed until 2017.