The Rail Trail project is progressing steadily, being now complete from Wilder Ranch to Bay Street in Santa Cruz. Also in place is the short segment along Beach Street, from Pacific Avenue to the recently-widened pedestrian bridge across the San Lorenzo River. In between is the segment from the corner of California and Bay to Pacific Avenue.
Construction on that segment is scheduled to begin later this year. Above right is a rendering of what the completed California Street end will look like. The roadway at left is the entrance driveway into the sewage treatment plant. To the right of the driveway, at center-left in the rendering, is the plant's sign.
That same sign is in the photo at left, taken today, looking in the same direction along the railroad tracks. The new trail will be to the right of the tracks. The other end of this segment will connect with the existing paved trail from Depot Park, following the tracks under the wooden West Cliff Drive bridge to Pacific Avenue, next to the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary museum.
