Joe Rodota Trail (Sonoma County Regional Parks)
Sonoma County is stepping up its efforts to keep homeless people off the Joe Rodota Trail once and for all. The trail reopened on April 21st after the latest encampment sweep. Since then, the county has spent about 200-thousand-dollars on cleanup and upgrade efforts in hopes that was the last encampment sweep. Sonoma County Regional Parks has repaired landscaping, installed new fencing, and added dozens of boulders to a 300-foot section of the trail near Roseland Avenue. The eight-and-a-half-mile path that connects Downtown Santa Rosa and Sebastopol has been cleared of homeless encampments several times in recent years, but it always ends up getting repopulated.