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Pop City: Celebrating the Great Allegheny Passage

Posted Sep 17, 2008 by scott under trails
By: Abby Mendelson
September 17, 2008

“Now that we’ve connected the Great Allegheny Passage 150 miles to Cumberland,” says Linda McKenna Boxx, Allegheny Trail Alliance (ATA) President, “joining the C&O Canal Towpath, we go straight from McKeesport to Georgetown.” That’s some 300 off-road, bike-trail miles — with nine more to come. (That last teensy piece, between McKeesport and Pittsburgh, is confidently expected within a year.) “Now this has become a real international tourism destination,” Boxx adds. “People were waiting for this.” Read more»

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