State Term: Pennsylvania
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Ahead of Memorial Day Weekend, Veterans Launch Therapeutic Bike Ride Across the Country on Great American Rail-Trail
May 16, 2023
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Great American Rail-Trail Route Assessment Report 2023
May 05, 2023
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY To this end, RTC embarked on a 12-month assessment of route options using its GIS database of more than 34,000 miles of existing, multiuse trails nationwide, and analyzing more than 300 state and local trail plans to identify planned future trails. RTC also met and worked with more than 200 local trail partners […]
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Heritage Rail Trail County Park: 2022 User Survey And Economic Impact Analysis
May 01, 2023
This report was made possible through support from the York County Economic Alliance Trail Town Program, York County Department of Parks and Recreation, and the York County Rail Trail Authority. Trail Towns Program is a collaborative process with outreach to local governments, residents, and business owners in order for each town to reach its potential […]
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Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill River Trail
March 03, 2023
The Schuylkill River Trail (SRT) is a multiuse path that will ultimately extend 120 miles between the small town of Frackville in east-central Pennsylvania and the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers in Philadelphia.
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Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition (IHTC) 10 year Evaluation & Success Strategy
February 23, 2023
A Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC) TrailNation project, and led in partnership with the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) and the National Park Service’s Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program (RTCA), the Industrial Heartlands Trail Coalition brings together leaders from more than 100 agencies and organizations across four states– Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia, to establish the Industrial […]
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Groups Call on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to Prioritize Investment in State’s Active Transportation Infrastructure
February 22, 2023
Recommendations to accelerate trail networks to address economic development, climate resiliency, mobility and bike/ped safety.
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Seven Sensational New Rail-Trails to Celebrate in 2022
December 21, 2022
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is proud to showcase a handful of the new rail-trails that opened in 2022, bringing with them impactful changes.
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PECO Trail ROW Guidelines
November 01, 2022
PECO’s right-of-way policies and procedures for secondary uses of the right-of-way, including trails. Author:Â PECO
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Five Leaf-Peeping Destinations Along the Great American Rail-Trail
October 26, 2022
View five leaf-peeping destinations along the Great American Rail-Tail, a 3,700-mile developing cross country trail.
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Yearly Routine Rail-Trail Maintenance Costs Per Mile
August 26, 2022
The costs of rail-trail and multiuse trail maintenance are not well documented as a discipline—thus making it very difficult to compare practices for gaining cost savings and efficiencies. The purpose of this table is to quickly give a general sense of the routine maintenance cost per mile of various types of multiuse trails in different […]