Portions of the Santa Ana River Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail closed to hikers since last summer’s Lake fire are reopening today – although that section of the PCT is open only to long-distance hikers with a permit, a forest official said Monday.

A 7-mile section of the Santa Ana River Trail, or 2E03, south of the 38 and East Barton Flats will be open to all hikers. But a 15.5-mile stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail from the forest boundary north to Onyx Summit, repaired by San Gorgonio Wilderness Association volunteers, is accessible only to those with permits to hike more than 500 miles, said forest spokesman John Miller.

The San Bernardino National Forest leadership team had hoped to have that part of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail – one of two sections closed in the forest after wildfires – open in May for long-distance “through hikers” who started at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Miller didn’t know when that section will reopen to other hikers and backpackers.

“We have not had that conversation yet,” he said. “Good question, though.”

The rest of the Lake fire closure remains in effect.

Forest officials got many calls Friday, the expiration date for the forest closure order that had been in place since the 31,359-acre Lake fire broke out June 17, 2015, and burned a large swath of the San Gorgonio Wilderness, Miller said.

The changes are part of a new forest order signed Monday morning by San Bernardino forest Supervisor Jody Noiron and in effect until July 18, 2017.

Last July, officials reopened campgrounds in the Barton Flats and Heartbar areas, the Jenks Lake picnic area and trails outside the burned area such as San Bernardino Peak, Forsee Creek to John’s Meadow, Momyer and Vivian Creek.

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