List of rail trails in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Rail Trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian, bicycle, skating, equestrian, or light motorized traffic. Rail trails are multi-use paths offering at least pedestrians and cyclists recreational access to the routes.

Pennsylvania contains a total of 93 different rail trails. The trails cover a total of 1063 miles (1710 km), and an additional 635 miles (1021 km) have been proposed.

Trails beginning from A to E

A
- Allegheny Highlands Trail (part of the Great Allegheny Passage)
- Allegheny Portage Railroad Trail
- Allegheny Valley River Trail
- Arboretum Trail
- Armstrong Trail
- Arrowhead Trail, Washington County^[1]
B
- Back Mountain Trail
- Beaver River Trail
- Bellefonte Central Rail Trail
- Bristol Spurline Park Trail
- Buffalo Valley Rail Trail
- Butler-Freeport Community Trail
C
- Capital Area Greenbelt (public trail, but not a rail trail)^[2]
- Chester Valley Trail
- Clarion Highlands Trail
- Clarion - Little Toby Creek Trail
- Clearfield to Grampian Trail
- Conewago Trail
- Cross County Trail
- Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail
- Cumberland Valley Rail Trail
D
- D&H Trail
- D&L Trail
- Dimeling to Madera Trail
E
- East Branch Trail
- Eliza Furnace Trail
- Endless Mountain Riding Trail
- Ephrata Railroad Linear Park Trail
- Ernst Bike Trail

Trails beginning from F to M

F
- Five Star Trail
- Forks Township Recreational Trail
G
H
- Harmony Trail
- Heritage Rail Trail County Park
- Hike & Bike Trail
- Hoodlebug Trail
- Houtzdale Line Trail
I
- Indian Creek Valley Trail
- Iron Horse Trail, Pennsylvania, a rough 10-mile (16 km) trail mostly for hikers and some mountain biking^[3]
- Ironton Rail-trail
J
- James Mayer Riverwalk
- JFK Walking Trail
- John B. Bartram Trail
K
- Kellettville To Nebraska Trail
L
- Lackawanna River Heritage Trail
- Lancaster Junction Trail
- Lebanon Valley Rail Trail
- Lehigh & New England Trail
- Lehigh Gorge Trail
- LeTort Spring Run Nature Trail
- Liberty Bell Trail^[4]
- Lititz to Warwick Bikeway
- Little Buffalo State Park Trail
- Lower Trail
- Luzerne County Rail Trail
- Lycoming Creek Bikeway
M
- Mahoning Shadow Trail
- Mill Creek Trail
- Montour Trail^[5]

Trails beginning from N to Z

N
- NOR-Bath Trail
O
- O&W Rail Trail
- Ohio River Trail
- Oil Creek State Park Trail
P
- P&W Trail^[6]
- Palmer Bikeway
- Panhandle Trail
- Penns Creek Path
- Perkiomen Trail
- Phoenix Iron Canal Trail
- Pike2Bike Trail, unofficially known as the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike; a former alignment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; part of the former South Pennsylvania Railroad alignment before the turnpike was built
- Pine Creek Rail Trail
- Plainfield Township Trail
- Pymatuning State Park Spillway Trail
R
- Railroad Grade Trail
- Redbank Valley Trails Association
- Roaring Run Trail
- Rotary Walk Trail
S
- Samuel Justus Recreational Trail
- Sandy Creek Trail
- Schuylkill River Trail^[7]
- Sewickley Creek Trail
- Snow Shoe Trail
- Stavich Bike Trail
- Steel Valley Trail (part of the Great Allegheny Passage)
- Stony Valley Railroad Grade
- Struble Trail
- Susquehanna Warrior Trail
- Swatara State Park Rail Trail
- Switchback Railroad Trail
T
- Three Rivers Heritage Trail (part of the Great Allegheny Passage)
- Thun Trail
- Tidioute Riverside Rec Trek Trail
- Towpath Bike Trail
- Trolley Trail^[8]
- Twin Lakes Trail
W
- Warren to North Warren Bike Trail
- West Penn Trail
- Westmoreland Heritage Trail
- Wynn & Clara Tredway River Park
Y
- York County Heritage Trail
- Youghiogheny River Trail^[9]

References

↑ http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/railtrails/oneTrail.aspx?name=Arrowhead+Trail
↑ http://www.caga.org/about/about.html
↑ http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/railtrails/oneTrail.aspx?name=Iron+Horse+Trail
↑ http://www.montcopa.org/parks/LibertyBell.htm
↑ http://www.montourtrail.org/
↑ http://www.waynepa.com/history/trains/pandwtrail/default.htm
↑ http://www.schuylkillriver.org/Detail.aspx?id=548
↑ "Trolley Trail". Countryside Conservancy. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
↑ http://www.youghrivertrail.com/

External links

Protected areas of Pennsylvania

Federal

NPS National Historical Parks & National Historic Sites	Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS Edgar Allan Poe NHS Eisenhower NHS Friendship Hill NHS Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church NHS Hopewell Furnace NHS Independence NHP Steamtown NHS Valley Forge NHP

National Memorials	Benjamin Franklin Flight 93 Johnstown Flood Thaddeus Kosciuszko

National Battlefields and National Military Parks	Fort Necessity NB Gettysburg NMP

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

Other protected areas	Allegheny National Recreation Area Blue Marsh National Recreation Area Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Lackawanna Heritage Valley National and State Heritage Area Middle Delaware National Scenic River Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River

National Forests	Allegheny

USFS National Historic Sites	Grey Towers

National Wildlife Refuges	Cherry Valley Erie John Heinz Ohio River Islands

State

State Parks	Allegheny Islands Archbald Pothole Bald Eagle Beltzville Bendigo Benjamin Rush Big Pocono Big Spring Black Moshannon Blue Knob Boyd Big Tree Buchanan's Birthplace Bucktail Caledonia Canoe Creek Chapman Cherry Springs Clear Creek Codorus Colonel Denning Colton Point Cook Forest Cowans Gap Delaware Canal Denton Hill Elk Erie Bluffs Evansburg Fort Washington Fowlers Hollow Frances Slocum French Creek Gifford Pinchot Gouldsboro Greenwood Furnace Hickory Run Hillman Hills Creek Hyner Run Hyner View Jacobsburg Jennings Joseph E. Ibberson Kettle Creek Keystone Kings Gap Kinzua Bridge Kooser Lackawanna Laurel Hill Laurel Mountain Laurel Ridge Laurel Summit Lehigh Gorge Leonard Harrison Linn Run Little Buffalo Little Pine Locust Lake Lyman Run Marsh Creek Maurice K. Goddard McCalls Dam McConnells Mill Memorial Lake Milton Mont Alto Moraine Mt. Pisgah Nescopeck Neshaminy Nockamixon Nolde Forest Norristown Farm Ohiopyle Oil Creek Ole Bull Parker Dam Patterson Penn-Roosevelt Pine Grove Furnace Poe Paddy Poe Valley Point Presque Isle Prince Gallitzin Promised Land Prompton Prouty Place Pymatuning R. B. Winter Raccoon Creek Ralph Stover Ravensburg Reeds Gap Ricketts Glen Ridley Creek Ryerson Station S. B. Elliott Salt Springs Samuel S. Lewis Sand Bridge Shawnee Shikellamy Sinnemahoning Sizerville Susquehanna Susquehannock Swatara Tobyhanna Trough Creek Tuscarora Tyler Upper Pine Bottom Varden Warriors Path Washington Crossing Whipple Dam White Clay Creek Worlds End Yellow Creek

State Forests	Bald Eagle Buchanan Clear Creek Cornplanter Delaware Elk Forbes Gallitzin Lackawanna Loyalsock Michaux Moshannon Rothrock Sproul Susquehannock Tiadaghton Tioga Tuscarora Weiser William Penn (Wild areas)

Scenic Rivers	Bear Run French Creek Lehigh River LeTort Spring Run Lick Run Lower Brandywine Octoraro Creek Pine Creek Schuylkill River Stony Creek Tucquan Creek Tulpehocken Creek Yellow Breeches Creek

Other

Other	Anders Run Natural Area Forrest H. Duttlinger Natural Area Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Hoverter and Sholl Box Huckleberry Natural Area Johnson Run Natural Area Stone Valley Recreation Area Trexler Nature Preserve Wykoff Run Natural Area

Hiking trails	Appalachian Baker Black Forest Central Mountains Shared Use Darlington Eastern Continental Five Star Glacier Ridge Great Eastern Greene River Horse-Shoe Indian Creek Valley Loyalsock Mid State Standing Stone Mason-Dixon North Country Ohio River Old Loggers Path Pinchot Potomac Heritage Quehanna Rachel Carson Sheepskin Susquehannock Thunder Swamp Tuscarora Valley Forge Historical West Rim Wissahickon Youghiogheny River

Rail trails	Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Beaver River East Coast Greenway Five Star Ghost Town Great Allegheny Passage Great Shamokin Path Greene River Indian Creek Valley Lebanon Valley Lehigh Gorge Liberty Bell Lower Montour Ohio River Palmer Bikeway Panhandle Perkiomen Pine Creek Plainfield Township Schuylkill River Sheepskin Struble Susquehanna Warrior Switchback Three Rivers Heritage York Country Heritage Youghiogheny River

Nature centers	List of nature centers in Pennsylvania

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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