One reason the trail sometimes closes during the winter months is for potential or actual flooding at places where the trail passes through a tunnel next to the creek, like at Highway 101.

When the weather is questionable, check the Mountain View Trail Closure Hotline at 650-903-6072

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1. One way to help the trail is by participating in trail projects. Friends of Stevens Creek Trail hosts an annual Trail Work Day each year, usually in April.
2. Another way to help the trail is to help it get built. Right now, many of the hurdles have been crossed in Mountain View, but that isn't the case in other cities along the creek. Citizens in Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Los Altos can all help the trail get built through their towns by voicing their support to their governing officials. Contact us for more information.

• Reach 1, a flat and straight trail, away from any houses, with no bridges and opened in 1992, cost around $10,000 (from memory).
• Reach 2, which tunnels under Hwy 101, crosses Moffett Blvd, has a bridge to Whisman Park and opened in 1995, cost around $235,000 (from memory).
• Reach 3, which takes the trail through a more urban area and includes a large bridge over Central Expressway, tunnel under Hwy 85, underpass of Middlefield Rd, and bridge over the creek, opened in 1999 and cost around $2,500,000.
• Reach 4 Segment 1, involving difficult cantilevered construction close to the creek with a large bridge over Hwy 237, was opened in 2004 and was built at a cost of just under $4,000,000, with $1,810,750 coming from various county, state and federal grants.
• Reach 4 Segment 2 is being done in sections, partially due to its high cost
• The first phase of Reach 4, Segment 2, brought the trail from the end of Yuba Drive south under El Camino Real. The total cost for this was $6,805,000 but that included the purchase of the property at the end of Yuba Drive for about $2,500,000 so construction is only a portion of that total.
• The second phase of Reach 4, Segment 2 will run from El Camino Real to the end of Sleeper Avenue and include one bridge over the creek. It is budgeted at $2,074,000 with expected completion in late Spring 2009.
• Design of the section from Sleeper Ave. to Dale/Heatherstone is expected to cost $1,900,000. Then, construction cost is expected to be $7,200,000 but since that won't start until 2010 or so, the cost could change.
• The final section of Stevens Creek Trail in Mountain View will be from Dale/Heatherstone along and eventually back across Hwy85 to Mountain View High School. This section is currently estimated to cost as much as $20,000,000.
• The Moffett Blvd. overcrossing is budgeted for $4,900,000.

MV R4-S2.1: $264,000 from the Santa Clara Valley Water District as part of their Clean, Safe Creeks and Natural Flood Protection Program in Fall 2005.
MV R4-S2.1: $700,000 State Transportation Fund for Clean Air Grant in 2005.
MV R4-S2.2: $874,000 California Rivers Parkway Grant by the State Resources Agency in summer 2006..
MV R4-S2.2: $275,000 Transportation Fund for Clean Air Program Grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District in summer 2006. (not sure if this was reassigned or what, but it isn't in the final funding list).
MV R4-S2.2: $825,000 Construction Tax Conveyance Fund
MV R4-S2.2: $375 000 Shoreline Regional Park Community Fund
MV R4-S2.3: $400,000 n TFCA grant funds to Project 10-42, Dale/Heatherstone.
MV R4-2.3: $418,144 in 2009-10 Transportation Development Act (IDA), Article 3, funds to Project 10-42, Stevens Creek Trail, Sleeper to Dale/Heatherstone Construction
MV R4-2.4: $483,060 in 2011-12 CIP budget for design of the Stevens Creek Trail from Dale/Heatherstone to Mountain View High School.

Cupertino Phase I: (tbd)
Cupertino Scenic Circle access (2011): Total cost of (tbd)
Cupertino Phase II (2011-2013):
Total cost of $3,500,000 for combined trail extension and creek restoration.
$200,000 from "Park Dedication fees".
$1,215,000 of funding tied to doing the creek restoration came from the California River Parkways grant.
State EEMP grant of $245,000.
VTA Project Readiness agreement $25,000.
TDA grant for $103,000.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District may grant $285K for "Trails and Open Space"
The Santa Clara Valley Water District may grant $565K for "Environmental Enhancements".
Upon completion, the total construction contract cost of phase two was $3.281 million, with $2.831 million in project funding coming from grants and other outside funds and contributions

1. Study Area A covers Stevens Creek Trail through Rancho San Antonio. Much of this trail has already opened, although not currently identified as Stevens Creek Trail. The most recent addition is the Hammond Snyder Trail that gets quite close to Stevens Creek Blvd. The remaining work is to provide access across the Union Pacific Railroad tracks that block the park from the road. Here is the feasibility study map
2. Study Area D covers the trail between Stevens Creek Blvd and Blackberry Farm. This has construction planned for 2007 - 2009 with opening in 2010 and includes part of Study Area C as well, McClellan Ranch. Here is the feasibility study map
3. Study Area C covers a section of trail that is now planned in McClellan Ranch and then a trail that might run south of McClellan Road along the edge of the Linda Vista neighborhood and Deep Cliff Golf Course. There is no active planning work in this area at this time (2007). There are 3 maps covering this area: Map 1, Map 2, & Map 3.
4. Study Area B covers the steep terrain below Stevens Creek Reservoir past the old quarry. There is no active planning work in this area at this time (2007). Much of the land is privately owned with the hope that easements would be granted should the owner wish to develop the property. Here is the feasibility study map for Study Area B.

That leaves a missing piece between Mountain View and Cupertino. Los Altos has completed a feasibility study in 2008 to see how they might connect the trail through their city and provide access for their residents. Sunnyvale would not benefit from this, though, so they will need to determine their own solution. Both these cities decided in the early 1990s that they would pursue only a street-based trail.