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The $6.5 million trail was conceived by hiking enthusiast Bill Niedringhaus, president of Fairfax Trails and Streams, in 1997. [5] [6] He noticed a nearly continuous stretch of publicly owned land across the county which already contained 26.5 miles of discontinuos trail and he presented the idea to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at a park bond hearing in 1998, enlisting the support ...
The Fairfax County Parkway Trail is a multi-use trail that runs alongside the Franconia–Springfield Parkway and Fairfax County Parkway from Beulah Street in Springfield to SR 7, [10] mostly as a sidepath, but sometimes using adjacent frontage roads and old alignments of the roads that the parkway replaced.
Four Mile Run is a 9.4-mile-long (15.1 km) [2] stream in Northern Virginia that starts near Interstate 66, at Gordon Avenue in Fairfax County and proceeds southeast through Falls Church to Arlington County in the U.S. state of Virginia.
The Holmes Run Trail is a partially paved trail that travels through parks northwest along Holmes Run from Cameron Run in Alexandria, Virginia to Annandale Road (Virginia State Route 649) in Fairfax County, Virginia. The trail travels near the sides of the stream with multiple bridges, some of which are only about a foot higher than the water.
The ICC Trail is a combination multi-use trail and on road route along the general path of the ICC. It includes about 7 miles of trail and 11 miles along parallel roads. A bicycle trail had long been identified in County master plans as part of the proposed ICC, [165] both in Montgomery County [166] and Prince George's County. [167]
Difficult Run is a 15.9-mile-long (25.6 km) [1] tributary stream of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia in the United States. [2]The stream is part of a 57.7-square-mile drainage basin, or watershed, in the north-central portion of Fairfax County, Virginia.
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The authority also owns seven golf courses (Oakmont, Pinecrest, Jefferson, Burke Lake, Greendale, Laurel Hill, and Twin Lakes), as well as over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) of trails. Fairfax County has adopted a program to both link the various existing trails and to acquire new land for trails with the goal of creating a county-wide network of ...