Great Eastern Trail

[Jay H]

Ever hear of this?

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/07/06/eastern.trail.ap/index.html

Discuss!

Jay

 

[Mark Schaefer]

I had not heard of it before, but I just saw this link to the Great Eastern Trail website on the NY/NJ trail conference website. It has a map of the proposed trail, showing linkups to other long distance trails. It also has some state specific information and an email contact. The proposed trail corridors do look interesting.

 

[bubba]

Yes, was aware. From my Finger Lakes Trail association, I recall reading about a just completed Pennsylvania trail spur that tied together a network that crosses the state linking it to a cross-Maryland trail system and so on. The Finger Lakes Trail is looking at how to tie into the Penn system... it's about a 30 mi. spread IIRC.

The Finger Lakes Trail is part of the North Country Scenic Trail, a "premier footpath that stretches for about 4,600 miles linking communities, forests, and prairies across seven northern states. Already, more than 1,700 miles have been certified off-road. Additional miles follow shared paths, and some road walks". The NCST works in partnership with the National Park Service.

So someday this could be the longest trail -- all the way from North Dakota to Alabama!!