C & O Canal Trust
The C & O Canal Trust is an official non-profit partner of the C & O Canal Historic Park in Maryland. A group of nine towns located along the C & O Canal Towpath Trail have collaborated to offer bike tours and fund-raisers to promote biking along the famous Cumberland and Ohio Canal. They have also teamed up with Wilderness Voyageurs, an active travel tour company, to promote the trail, encourage bicycle tourism for the towns along the trail and to raise funds to promote the trail and the communities along the trail.
Bike Trail Tourism
This effort by the C & O Canal Trust is a great example of communities uniting to promote trail tourism in their area. The benefits of active travel tourism are great and include:
- improved tourism
- economic benefits to local communities
- environmentally friendly travel
- historical awareness
- healthy travel options
- greater connections between locals and tourists
- affordable tourism for people of all incomes
