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The Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail is a multi-use trail that follows part of the former route of the Ohio & Erie Canal in Northeast Ohio. The trail runs from north to south through Cuyahoga, Summit, Stark, and Tuscarawas counties. The trail is planned to be 101 miles (163 km) long and currently 87 miles (140 km) of the trail are complete. [1]
The trail is planned to be 326 miles (525 km) in length. Of that number, 267 miles (430 km) are complete and in daily use, 59 miles (95 km) are either under construction or in engineering design, as of Nov 2016. [7] By the end of 2022 the Ohio to Erie Trail will have over 90% dedicated bike trails and 3.6% streets and 5.9% rural roads.
The canal is 258 miles (415 km) long. During 1832, the Ohio and Erie Canal was completed. The entire canal system was 308 miles (496 km) long with 146 lift locks and a rise of 1,206 feet (368 m). In addition, there were five feeder canals that added 24.8 miles (39.9 km) and 6 additional locks to the system consisting of:
In 1958, the entire path was cleared for hiking and a 12-mile bicycle trail was built on the towpath, from Georgetown's Mule Bridge at 34th Street in Washington, DC to Widewater, a meander cutoff of the Potomac in Maryland. [20] The bicycle trail was built by laying crushed blue stone over the muddy towpath and opened on November 22, 1958.
When finished the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail would run from New Philadelphia to Cleveland.
The section of the popular walking trail in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park is not expected to reopen until June 28. There are no detours available and it will not be open on the weekends.
Led by a volunteer, they bike five to eight miles on the towpath and back, depending on their abilities. Cleveland students bike on the towpath in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park during a ride ...
The multi-purpose Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail was developed by the National Park Service and is the major trail through Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The trail traverses almost 21 mi (34 km) from Rockside Road in Independence in the north to Summit County's Bike & Hike trail in the south, following the Cuyahoga River for much of its length.
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