Jake Lynch
Jake Lynch was formerly RTC’s marketing and media relations specialist. He is currently a freelance writer and Community Engagement Editor for 100 Days in Appalachia.
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Riverfront Resurgence: Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Heritage Trail
October 03, 2019
“Is it true you made the Pittsburgh Steelers shorten their practice fields to make room for the trail?” I ask. Tom Murphy, mayor of Pittsburgh from 1994 to 2006, and the now legendary spearhead of the city’s revitalization in recent decades, doesn’t miss a beat. “Well, that’s the value of being the mayor,” he says. […]
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The P2P: World-Class Trail Network to Kick-Start Bike Tourism Boom in West Virginia and Pennsylvania
May 17, 2018
It was a cold and rainy morning that day in north central West Virginia, but inside the mood was exuberant, the crowd full of optimism, excitement. Last month’s unveiling of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s (RTC’s) feasibility study on completing the West Virginia section of the 238-mile Parkersburg to Pittsburgh rail-trail (the “P2P”) was certainly not the beginning of anything. […]
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Top 10 Rail-Trails for American History: A Fourth of July List
July 02, 2015
From the finery of America’s oldest cities to the wild open spaces of our pioneering past, rail-trails are the perfect way to relive key moments in the nation’s history. This Independence Day weekend, celebrate the birth and growth of America by riding or striding into the past. These former railroad corridors are deeply rooted in […]
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West Virginia’s North Bend Rail Trail
January 09, 2015
North Bend Rail Trail December 2015 Trail of the Month There aren’t many rail-trail stories like this. The 69 mile North Bend Rail Trail is in the pantheon of stories about local trail advocacy. In the late 1980s, the abandoned CSX rail corridor that would one day become the North Bend Rail Trail was little more than […]
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