Results tagged “Rail trail” from York Town Square

The portion of the York County Heritage Rail Trail near Glatfelter Station is ideal for both hikers and bikers.

A major movement is spreading across York and Adams counties.

Old railroad and trolley rights of way as well as an old canal footpath are being converted into rail trails - a major recycling program.

The Heritage Rail Trail County Park is the most prominent, but here are some other extensions or separate trails inventoried in a recent York Weekly Record story:

The linkup of the county rail trail with York is only about seven years old, but already there's a lot to talk about concerning the 20-plus-mile-long path through the heart of York County. http://ycwebserver.york-county.org/Parks/RailTrail.htm

Here's some miscellaneous meanderings that might intrigue:

-- Users seeking to get on the trail from Dallastown/Red Lion and other points east should try the somewhat secluded, but beautiful Glatfelter's Station parking area.

This site is historic because it's near where the now-massive Glattfelder clan first settled in York County in 1747. http://www.glattfelder.org It's closer for motorists coming from many points east than the Seven Valleys and Hanover Junction parking lots, and it's within a couple of miles from Howard Tunnel, the old train tunnel that's a must-see site on the trail. It's also within three miles of another must-see site -- the Hanover Junction station. And in between, these two sites, there's the welcome Serenity Station stop for a sandwich and root beer.

-- Speaking of the tunnel, it's worth another visit if you were one of those folks, like myself, who were jolted in the trail's early years when kids jumped screaming out of the alcove in the tunnel's middle... .

Many York countians are eagerly looking forward to the opening of the rail trail from York to John Rudy Park.

The land along the Codorus Creek that the trail will follow was graded in the early 1830s to accommodate a tow path for mules to pull canal boats between York and the Susquehanna. A series of dams in the Codorus created slackwater pools making the Codorus navigable... .