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The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is a 150-mile (240 km) rail trail between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cumberland, Maryland.Together with the C&O Canal towpath, the GAP is part of a 335 mi (539 km) route between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., that is popular with through hikers and cyclists.
The Allegheny Highlands Trail of Maryland (AHTM) is a 20.47-mile (32.94 km) long rail trail between the C&O Canal in Cumberland and the Mason–Dixon line, where it meets the Allegheny Highlands Trail of Pennsylvania. It forms part of the Pittsburgh– Washington, DC Great Allegheny Passage.
Tom's Run Relay is an annual 200-mile running and biking relay along the C & O Canal Towpath from Cumberland, Maryland, to its terminus in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Runners continue through Washington, D.C., and cross the 14th Street Bridge to access the Mount Vernon Trail. Runners continue along the Mount Vernon Trail through Old Town ...
The C&O Canal Trust, [28] founded in 2007, is the official non-profit partner of the National Park Service. The C&O Canal Association is a volunteer organization established in 1954 to help conserve the natural and historical environment of the C&O Canal and the Potomac River Basin. [29]
To build the canal, the C&O Canal Company used a total of 74 lift locks that raised the canal from sea level at Georgetown to 610 feet (190 m) at Cumberland. [56] Locks 8–27 and their accompanying lock houses were made from Seneca red sandstone, quarried from the Seneca Quarry , as was Aqueduct No. 1, better known as Seneca Aqueduct .
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The Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) is 135 mile biking and hiking trail that connects Duquesne, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh) to Cumberland, MD. [3] The Allegheny Highlands Trail is the section of the trail that runs between Cumberland and the Mason-Dixon line (Smith, 2006).
In the 1980s, during the decline of the American steel industry, both mills were closed and razed. The Bridge remained unused for several years, until 2007, when it became part of the Great Allegheny Passage [1] bike trail from the C&O Canal Towpath in Cumberland MD to Pittsburgh PA.