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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 Ohio to Erie Trail is a dedicated multi-use trail crossing Ohio from southwest to northeast, crossing 326 mi (525 km) of regional parks, nature preserves, and rural woodland. The trail, named after its endpoints, extends from the Ohio River at Cincinnati to the Lake Erie at Cleveland , primarily integrating former rail trails and multi-use ...
Map of a portion of the canal route in the Cuyahoga Valley. The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio.It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth.
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.
When finished the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail would run from New Philadelphia to Cleveland.
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.
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A towpath cut into the rock beside the Lot river in southwest France "Towboats Along the Yotsugi-dōri Canal" from Hiroshige's "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" series, a depiction of a towpath in rural Tokyo, mid-19th century. A towpath is a road or trail on the bank of a river, canal, or other inland waterway.