Project Description: In November 2009, the Sherwins Working Group (SWG) completed a seven-month collaborative process that resulted in the production of the Sherwins Area Recreation Plan (SHARP), an outdoor-recreation management plan for both winter and summer articulations of the Sherwins area directly to the south of the Town of Mammoth Lakes Urban Growth Boundary. SHARP represents thousands of hours of volunteer work by a diverse collection of Mammoth Lakes community members and was presented to the Inyo National Forest (INF) as a conceptual proposal for further consideration, development, and potential implementation.

In April 2010, members of the SWG met with other interested members of the public, the Town of Mammoth Lakes (TOML), MLTPA, and the INF to kick off the SHARP Trails Technical Committee, or SHARP TTC, which is tasked with working collaboratively and within the scope of the original SHARP recommendations to take INF-approved elements from SHARP from the conceptual level to a detailed "trail alignment study" that is ready for environmental analysis. 

During the summer of 2011, the SHARP TTC focused its efforts on two alignments located in the Bluffs area of Mammoth Lakes and developed specific technical alignments for approximately 1.4 miles of trails and facilities. As a testament to the dedication and commitment of the SHARP TTC, a total of 17 individuals attended at least one meeting or field trip between that year's process start date of July 28, 2011, and its end date of November 15, 2011. The SHARP TTC held a total of nine different meetings and field trips over a five-month period with volunteers dedicating approximately 54 total volunteer work hours to this effort and producing key agreements, project maps, refined alignments, and collection of comments for the identified SHARP proposals.  All members of the public are welcome to becoming involved in the SHARP TTC; to sign up to receive project-related e-mails, please contact us at info@mltpa.org.

Last Updated January 10, 2018

SHARP Trail Alignment Studies

Listed below are individual SHARP Trail alignment studies that have been completed and are now available for download.  SHARP Trail Alignment Studies that have been submitted to the USFS for environmental review are identified as well.

Various compilations of SHARP Trail Alignment studies are included and are listed towards the bottom.