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The stretch of trail is part of the roughly 830-mile Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, which extends between the Chesapeake Bay and the Allegheny Highlands in the upper Ohio River basin, according to the National Park Service. The trail follows the Potomac River and consists of numerous locally managed routes in Maryland, the District, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The Prince William portion of the trail runs through Occoquan and the Belmont Bay area, to Leesylvania State Park and Quantico Marine Corps base. There is also the potential to create an inward loop into Prince William Forest Park, Prince William Park Authority planner Michael DePue said, noting that with the loop, the county could have up to 35 miles of heritage trail.
Sections of the trail overlap with the East Coast Greenway, a 3,000-mile trail that stretches between Canada and Key West, Fla., and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route, county officials said. The latter is the path Gen. George Washington and his French counterpart took in 1781 from the Rhode Island and New York area to Yorktown, Va., where the British army surrendered.
The project could take five to 15 years, park officials said, but once it is complete, residents could avoid busy roadways and instead hike or bike the eastern edge of the county.
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