California

California

President: Richard Nixon

Date(s) and Start Point: Squaw Valley -- June 24, 2007

Sponsoring Club: 2007 AVA Convention Committee

Website for Event Information: http://www.ava.org/gen3/data/event_details.asp?eventid=76738

History Lesson: Richard Nixon, who was Vice President at the time, officially opened the 1960 Winter Olympics. He later became US President.

President: Ulysses S. Grant

Date(s) and Start Point: Benicia -- June 25, 2007

Sponsoring Club: 2007 AVA Convention Committee

Website for Event Information: http://www.ava.org/gen3/data/event_details.asp?eventid=76740

History Lesson: Grant was stationed at the Benicia Garrison during the Civil War.

President: Gerald Ford

Date(s) and Start Point: Sacramento -- June 25, 2007

Sponsoring Club: 2007 AVA Convention Committee

Website for Event Information: http://www.ava.org/gen3/data/event_details.asp?eventid=76741

History Lesson: Attempted assassination of Gerald Ford in September 1975 in the Capitol grounds.

President: Bill Clinton

Date(s) and Start Point: Davis -- June 28, 2007

Sponsoring Club: 2007 AVA Convention Committee

Website for Event Information: http://www.ava.org/gen3/data/event_details.asp?eventid=76744

History Lesson: Spoke at the University of California-Davis during his presidency.

President: Benjamin Harrison, William H. Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush

Start Point: Coronado — 12km Walk (YR0352), Jan 3 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0772, Coronado Beachcombers

History Lesson: The walk goes on the sidewalk in front of the Hotel del Coronado and on a public walkway on the property of the hotel. Eleven presidents have stayed at the hotel and some have conducted various official functions at the hotel. When FDR was there he had the presidential flag flown making the hotel the official white house. http://www.hoteldel.com/uploads/presidential_visitors_at_the_hotel_del_coronado_10_353.15_353.pdf

President: Abraham Lincoln

Start Point: Redlands — 10km Walk (YR0584), Jan 1 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0285, Green Valley Gaiters, Inc.

History Lesson: Trail goes past the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Shrine, which is a tribute to Lincoln and a museum displaying an extensive Lincoln collection. The website is: http://www.lincolnshrine.org/main.html

President: Richard Nixon, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford

Start Point: Riverside — 10km Walk (YR1478), Jan 1 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0157, Low Desert Roadrunners

History Lesson: The Mission Inn is on this trail and has been the site of some of the following events involving US Presidents. Richard Nixon was married in the Presidential Lounge in the Mission Inn. Theodore Roosevelt is said to have planted a Navel Orange Tree in the Mission Inn's Main Courtyard. The Mission Inn had a special chair built to accommodate the 300-pound William Howard Taft during his visit and stay. Benjamin Harrison, Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford have all been guests at the Mission Inn.

President: Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan

Start Point: Sacramento — 11km Walk (YR0003), Jan 1 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-CA, California Volkssport Association

History Lesson: In September 1975 there was an attempted assassination of Gerald Ford while he was touring the State Capitol grounds. Also Ronald Reagan was Governor and was the last Governor to reside in the Historic Governor's Mansion at the corner of 16th and H Streets.

President: Ronald Reagan

Start Point: Simi Valley — 10km Walk (YR0739), Jan 1 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0427, Hollywood Star Trekkers

History Lesson: The Reagan Presidential Library is in view, on a hilltop, for some of the trail. Due to the steep grade and traffic on Presidential Drive, it is recommend that you drive up to the library (and grave site) after the walk.

President: Ulysses S. Grant

Start Point: Tahoe City — 5/10km Cross Country Ski (YR0564), Jan 1 - Mar 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0489, Tahoe Trail Trekkers

History Lesson: Two years after leaving office on October 26, 1879, U. S. Grant, on the last leg of a World tour with wife and son visited Tahoe City, California, the spot where, in 1872, he had granted four acres of land to the citizens of Tahoe City, for the Commons Beach. From there the party was transported to Glenbrook on the steamship Meteor on the way to the Comstock area in Nevada.

President: Rutherford Hayes

Start Point: Tahoe City - Tahoe Rim Trail— 10/12km Walk (YR1863), May 1 - Nov 30

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0489, Tahoe Trail Trekkers

History Lesson: In September 1880, Rutherford Hayes, was the first sitting President to visit Lake Tahoe. After visiting Reno and Virginia City, with parades, speeches and visiting the mines. President Hayes and party trained to Glenbrook and boarded the steamship Meteor for Tahoe City, California late in the day they boarded a special Central Pacific Train in Truckee bound for San Francisco.

President: Rutherford Hayes

Start Point: Truckee— 10/12km Walk (YR1667), May 1 - Nov 30

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0489, Tahoe Trail Trekkers

President: Richard Nixon

Start Point: Yorba Linda — 10km Walk (YR0735), Jan 3 - Dec 31

Sponsoring Club: AVA-0157, Low Desert Roadrunners

History Lesson: Walk goes by the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace.

Updated February 21, 2007