Volunteers for Outdoor California

Welcome to 2026! We're in the middle of trail building season, come join us! Our next project is returning to Mt. Madonna in August (our first project of the season was there in April), then the East Bay Hills Benefit in September, and more to come!

Thank you Cathy Moyer, and Congratulations Duane Sheets! After about 20 years(!) our Founder and Executive Director Cathy Moyer has decided to step down - thank you Cathy for getting this all started and running things for many years! Our new Executive Director will be a familiar face to many of our volunteers - please welcome Duane Sheets! Duane is filling some big shoes - congratulations and good luck Duane in your new role.

Help us take V-O-Cal to the next level by donating today! Thanks to an amazing volunteer, we have set up a GoFundMe - Thank you, Brittany! Another volunteer (who has asked to remain anonymous) has made a $50,000 contribution to get the fundraising started. Our goal is to match his contribution with another $50,000 from the GoFundMe. Help make that incredibly generous donation just the beginning and enable V-O-Cal to keep building trails to the future. Please check out the GoFundMe page and our Donation page and share with all your friends.

Who are we? Volunteers for Outdoor California (V-O-Cal) is a volunteer workforce for large-scale trail maintenance and construction projects, habitat restoration, and related land stewardship activities on public lands in partnership with public agencies and other nonprofit organizations.

Season Sponsor Special Thanks to Bay Area Barns and Trails for their generous grants supporting the 2024, 2025 and 2026 V-O-Cal Project Seasons. BABT assists landowners and land managers with preservation and maintenance of publicly accessible Bay Area barns, stables, pastures, staging areas, horse camps, and trails.