Welcome to the Vine Trail! The Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition is a grass-roots nonprofit with a vision to build a walking/biking trail system connecting the entire Napa Valley–and better join the Napa Valley to the rest of the active transportation world! WITH YOUR HELP we are working to design, fund, construct, and maintain 47 safe and scenic miles of level, paved, family-friendly, free-access Class I trail, stretching from the Vallejo Ferry to Calistoga.

The Vine Trail’s ranks of members and supporters have grown to over 5,000 since we started in September 2008. THANK YOU for your support and advocacy! Your dollars and volunteer hours are at the core of our ability to bring this ambitious plan to reality.

The Coalition is our grassroots effort to implement the Napa Greenway Feasibility Study, a study commissioned by the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency that outlines a plan for a multi-use trail from Calistoga to Vallejo.  The northern portion of trail implementation runs from the Napa bike trail at Trancas Street and Highway 29 in Napa, to the Calistoga Bike Trail at Dunaweal Lane in Calistoga – a distance of 22 miles. The route here will follow Highway 29 and the Wine Train tracks.

The southern portion of the Vine Trail extends from Trancas and Highway 29 southeast across Napa, along the Wine Train Tracks to Soscal Avenue, and then south along the river through Kennedy Park to American Canyon.  From there, both a river route and an inland route are under investigation to meet up with the existing biking and hiking path in Vallejo that currently ends at the intersection of Highways 29 and 37.

We want to make this effort as open and available as possible to the entire valley community and so have created this website to communicate up to the minute information on what’s happening. The downside of course, is that this information will change over time, and often.  Our modest disclaimer: though you’ve seen it here, it may not be a done deal. All the more reason for the most open of communication lines; we’ll continue to rely on your comments on every aspect of what we are doing.  Please send us your thoughts, suggestions and ideas… the Vine Trail is for you!

Throughout this process we pledge to the community that:

• The process will be open and inclusive
• No vineyard land will be taken out of production
• All easements, use agreements, etc. will be voluntary
• Provisions will be made for ongoing maintenance & upkeep
• The result will be as beautiful as our Napa Valley

For an in-depth look at the goals and processes of the coalition and the Vine Trail, please peruse The Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition Case Statement here.