Category: C and O Canal Towpath trail

Rollerpacking – Am I the last to hear about this?

Thanks to Everytrail user Ben, I recently found out about an awesome trail activity called Rollerpacking. It involves an overnight trail trip on inline skates. Basically, it’s back-packing on inline skates. Of course, it requires a nice smooth paved trail, but there are plenty of those featured on trailsnet. (Just click on the “Locate Trails …

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Going Slowly is a great bike travel blog w/ awesome photos

I’ve always said that bike travel is the best way to really see the land, no matter where that land happens to be. Now I’ve found another blog that proves that.  It’s called Going Slowly and it chronicles the adventures of Tyler and Tara as they venture around the world on their bikes. In the …

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Connecting Rail Trails to make Super Rail-Trails

Super Rail-Trails Rail trails are fantastic. But how do you turn an ordinary, every-day rail trail (if such a thing exists) into SUPER TRAIL!!! It’s really quite simple; you just connect two good trails and you get one great trail.  Here are some examples: C & O Canal trail connects to the  GAP trail, the Western Maryland Rail …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/20/connecting-rail-trails-to-make-super-rail-trails/

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Towpath trail section 2

To those of you who enjoyed yesterday’s C & O Canal trail post, you’re welcome. I was quite pleased to get the C & O Canal Towpath section #1 trail guide published. Today I found out that section #2 C & O Canal trail guide has also been published. So here’s a link for that …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/13/chesapeake-ohio-canal-towpath-trail-section-2/

C & O Canal Towpath trail guide published

Bike trails are a dime-a-dozen, right? I mean they’re all over the place; this one’s three miles long, that one’s five miles long. If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. bike rider on the C & O Canal Towpath trail in Maryland I dare you to ride the C & O Canal Towpath trail …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/13/c-o-canal-towpath-trail-guide-published/

C & O Canal Towpath trail

I thought I would have finished my C & O Canal Towpath trail web page by now, but it’s taking me longer than I thought. Sorry ’bout that. The east side of the Big Savage Tunnelon the C & O Canal Towpath Trail in Maryland Anyway, I do have the pictures, a brief description, and …

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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/10/10/c-o-canal-towpath-trail/