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Northeast Region Projects:

Programs and Legislation

Pick the Brains of 100 Trail Managers
Maintenance and operation manual is free from RTC to you.


Trail User Survey Workbook

Advocacy Tool: "Community Trails—A Benefit to All"
A fact sheet, developed by RTC for trail groups in Maine, makes the case well for rural rail-trails just about anywhere.

Healthy Maine Walks (ME)
This unusual coalition makes it easier for Mainers to find and use walking routes throughout the state.

Rail-Trail Projects


Camden Regional Trails - Urban Pathways Initiative project 
Camden, New Jersey


Connecticut Riverwalk - Urban Pathways Initiative project 
Springfield, Mass.

Lehigh Gorge Rail-with-Trail will be expanded to Jim Thorpe, Pa. (PA)

Statewide Trail Network Taking Shape (PA)
With more than 100 open trails, and nearly the same number under development, the focus of trail-building in Pennsylvania has shifted away from individual trails and on to closing the gaps to create significant trail networks. Several of these are highlighted.

Pike to Bike Closer to Reality (PA)

Brockway and Beyond (PA)
The small town of Brockway, Pa. in Jefferson County is quickly becoming the hub of a burgeoning regional trail network. It is also a pilot healthy living community, where Rails-to-Trails Conservancy has helped to develop a walk-to-school program.

Lamoille Valley Rail-Trail (VT)

Liberty-Water Gap Trail
Northern New Jersey

Walnut Street Bridge - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (PA)
RTC's Northeast Regional office and the Central Pennsylvania Conservancy are co-chairing the People's Bridge Coalition, dedicated to the restoration of this century-old pedestrian bridge across the Susquehanna River.

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
The Duke Ellington Building
2121 Ward Ct., NW
5th Floor
Washington, DC 20037
+1-202-331-9696