Rails to Trails Conservancy

With the American Revolutionary War formally ended, George Washington was a celebrated war hero, the commander-in-chief who had successfully led the Continental Army in the fight for independence from Great Britain. His role as the fledgling nation’s first president, however, was still six years off. “So, there’s this kind of footnote in between those two very massive events,...

It’s an unseasonably hot April morning, and retirees Kevin Donnelly and Amy Sullivan are having lunch at one of the umbrella-shaded picnic tables outside the stylish Ecusta Market & Cafe in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Just a few feet away, their e-bikes are parked along the state’s newest rail-trail, the

Since being signed into law in 1983, railbanking has been used to create 265 rail-trails (and counting), but the process to implement the law has not always been straightforward. Early on, legal challenges mounted—from efforts to block the state-spanning Katy Trail in Missouri to parcel-by-parcel f...

The seventh anniversary of Rails to Trails Conservancy’s signature project marked by celebration of new trail development in Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, Wyoming and Washington State

WASHINGTON—Rails to Trails Conservancy, the nation’s largest trails, walking and biking advocacy organization, announced new momentum along the route of the