W&OD Trail history

The post ran a profile of Paul McCray, who has been involved with the W&OD trail since the very beginning. He has a lot of stories.

he can tell you about a runner who happened to work in the airline industry and found a plane's cargo hatch in Ashburn, around mile marker 25, near Dulles International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration came to claim it for investigation, but McCray said he was never told precisely from where -- or what -- it had come.

Several years ago, a woman who lived right off the trail in Falls Church near mile marker 6 went for a walk to help her labor progress. It worked a little too well, and soon her baby was born on the side of the trail.

...her husband proposed during an early-morning workout.

There's even a 78 second video with it - about the quarry and memorials. No mention of why the trail ends in Shirlington instead of Potomac Yards - the thing I've always wondered about.