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Pennsylvania Rail Trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian, bicycle, skating, equestrian, or light motorized traffic. Rail trails are multi-use paths offering, at a minimum, a combination of pedestrian and cycle recreation.
The Bellefonte Central Railroad (reporting mark BFC) [1] was a shortline connecting Bellefonte and State College, Pennsylvania.Constructed in the late 19th century to haul local iron ore to furnaces in the Bellefonte region, it later hauled freight traffic to Penn State and lime for steelmaking from local quarries.
The Mid State Trail (MST) is a 327-mile (526 km) linear hiking trail located in the Appalachian Mountains and Allegheny Plateau of central Pennsylvania, United States. [1] It is the longest hiking trail in Pennsylvania, and one of just three (with the Appalachian Trail and North Country Trail ) to traverse the state from one border to another.
The Pennsylvania State University, founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, [63] is a public land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state, with its largest and main campus, University Park, being located in the borough of State College and College Township north of College Avenue.
The four largest are (in descending order of population): Altoona, State College, Johnstown (all in Pennsylvania) and Cumberland (in Maryland). In the 1970s and '80s, the Interstate Highway System was extended into the northern portion of the Alleghenies, and the region is now served by a network of federal expressways— Interstates 80 , 70 / ...
Pennsylvania Route 45 (PA 45) is an 86-mile-long (138 km) state highway that is located in central Pennsylvania, United States. The western terminus of the route is situated at PA 453 in Morris Township near the community of Water Street .
The station offers parking, restrooms, an information center, trails maps, vending machines, a large map of the trail and McDonald and picnic tables. Village of Primrose - Located at mile 8.75 in Primrose, Pennsylvania there is an area with a parking lot, portable restroom, bulletin board and trail map.
The Rothrock State Forest contains nearly 300 miles of hiking trails. [10] The Pennsylvania Mid State Trail (MST), a 326-mile cross-country trail running from the Green Ridge State Forest in Maryland to a spur of the Finger Lakes trail in New York, crosses the Rothrock State Forest for