Kelly Pack | Photo courtesy Kelly Pack

Kelly Pack

Kelly Pack is RTC’s TrailNation accelerator program director, bringing over 20 years of experience in trail planning, community development and active transportation. Her love of trails, walking and biking began in childhood in West Virginia and deepened while living in Washington, D.C., where she became interested in how people use trails to move through communities and experience daily life. Pack was a lead author for RTC’s 2013 America’s Rails-with-Trails report.

Kelly holds an M.S. in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Resources from West Virginia University and previously served as a community planner with the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program.

She lives with her family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she enjoys biking on the Three Rivers Heritage Trail, long walks in neighborhood parks and quiet time at her local library.

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Inaugural WV TRAIL Conference Energizes Mass Effort for Statewide Trails Movement
November 23, 2021
Exciting happenings in West Virginia last week—as local and national trail advocates gathered virtually for the inaugural WV TRAIL Conference (Nov. 16–18, 2021). Hosted by WV TRAIL, the National Park Service – Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program, Friends of the Cheat and Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), the conference brought together more than 250 people with the goal of building […]
As part of the conference program, longtime West Virginia trail advocates Peggy Pings, Ella Belling and Amanda Pitzer celebrate Ella’s recognition as a leader of trail advocacy on the Mon River Rail-Trail System in Morgantown. | Photo courtesy Amanda Pitzer
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New USDOT Report Provides 25 Years of Lessons Learned for Rails-with-Trails
June 25, 2021
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently released Rails-with-Trails: Best Practices and Lessons Learned—a long-awaited update to its first release, published in 2002. Offering in-depth insights on the design, development, operations and benefits of rails-with-trails across the country, the report has served as an authoritative resource for trail builders for nearly two decades. Defined as trails […]
Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Photo by Jake Lynch
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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. […]
Railroad bridge crossing the Mon River seen from the Mon River Trail | Photo by Ella Belling
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