Railroad Safety Trail Nears Completion: San Luis Obispo's Railroad Safety Trail adds to the community's abundance of outdoor activities and pathways, and takes full advantage of California's mild coastal climate.

Tips for Trail Funding: From auctioned guitars to music festivals to traditional grants, RTC highlights how some trail organizations have addressed shortfalls in project funding.

Meeting of Trail Minds in San Diego: Laura Cohen, director of RTC's Western Regional Office, to present on 2010 Campaign at California Trails and Greenways Conference, May 29-31.

Calling All Volunteers: Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's Western Regional Office is recruiting enthusiastic volunteers to help map rail-trails for the upcoming California guidebook.

Looking for Trail Funding in California? Caltrans planning grants support wide-ranging transportation projects from traffic-calming measures to urban bicycle lanes to livable communities.

California Extends Safe Routes to School: Popular SR2S program directs $25 million a year to build safe trails, sidewalks and bike lines to give kids healthy, environmentally friendly ways to get to school.

Bridge Mending in Spokane: RTC is working with local advocates to restore a 96-year-old railroad bridge connecting to the 37-mile Spokane River Centennial Trail.

Where the Pines and Trails Grow: Valley County, Idaho, keeps chipping away at its master plan to develop more than 100 miles of pedestrian pathways.