Multi-Use Etiquette
- For evacuation safety, please do not block parking lot, campsite, or road access with your vehicle, esp. trailers and RVs.
- Maximum vehicle speed limit on all forest roads is 15 miles per hour.
- Motor vehicles stay on marked roads only.
- Vehicles yield to non-motorized users: pedestrians, equestrians, bicyclists.
- No trail maintenance, pruning or trail modifications without prior approval of the Forest Manager.
- Communication is the best way to assure safe and pleasant encounters on the trail. Click on the above image for more details on sharing trails.
- Please ride within your and your animal’s abilities on public trails. Horses should be kept under control and may not be left unattended.
- Horses should not be tethered to trees, shrubs, or other structures.
- Do not clean your horse trailer in the parking area. There is a manure bin at the horse camp.
- Step off the trail when possible if your horse relieves itself, or kick the droppings off the trail.
BMDSF Rules and Regulations
- Camping is allowed only in designated campgrounds. Please note that as of June 25, 2020, there is a fee of $25/night per campsite. Please contact the forest manager for group site fees and view this press release for June 2020 new regulations.
- Build campfires only in pits or stoves at camping areas and attend at all times. PREVENT WILDFIRES.
- Keep a clean camp. Take your garbage and trash with you when you leave as there is no garbage pickup service in this forest.
- Restrict motor vehicle use to existing roads. MOTOR VEHICLES ARE PROHIBITED FROM TRAILS AND CROSS COUNTRY TRAVEL.
- No Hunting or shooting unless permissible under CCR 1413 and Ca FGC 3004 or as posted. CCR 1413 states: “It is unlawful for any person to intentionally discharge any firearm … over or across any public road or other established way open to the public in an unsafe and reckless manner. [or] … to hunt or discharge while hunting, any firearm or other deadly weapon within 150 yards of any occupied dwelling, house, residence, or other building … in connection therewith.” Ca FGC 3004: The 150-yard area is a “safety zone”.
- Confine smoking to camp areas, within vehicles, or within areas cleared to bare mineral soil at least 3 feet in diameter.
- No rock, soil, greenery, forest products, trees or plants shall be cut, defaced, or removed without a written permit.
- Keep pets leashed and controlled in camp areas and on the trails.
- Keep horses out of Calso and Ridge camps.
- No structures shall be erected on State Forest Land.