Trail officials are are seeking a $5 million grant under PennDOT’s Transportation Alternatives Program to rehabilitate the 1/3mile long Safe Harbor Trestle in Safe Harbor, PA which will then close a gap on a 63 mile greenway - one that could get even longer and more extensive. This isn't exactly in the DC area, but it's close enough to make for a nice weekend trip.
The 62.7-mile proposed greenway corridor would include the Enola Low Grade Trail as well as the Northwest Lancaster County River Trail and the Chester Valley Trail in Chester County. And that could eventually link with the Conewago Recreation Trail near Elizabethtown and the Lebanon Valley River Trail to the north and the Schuylkill River Trail in Chester County, which goes all the way to Philadelphia, to the east. The Northwest Lancaster County River Trail could be extended someday to Harrisburg, too.
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn, who already travels to Lancaster County to bike and birdwatch on the trail, told assembled Lancaster County and Manor Township officials that “I think this is our Chesapeake Bay, right here.”
Maryland: "We already have one of those."
A couple of these trails are still being developed, but work should complete in 2018.
In December the Enola Low Grade Trail got a $500,000 Recreation and Conservation grant from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. It will be used for a trail surface and other improvements on 9 miles from the eastern end of Quarryville to the Chester County line.
According to the article, PennDOT was to announce the grants in January, but the website still shows the 2017 press release.
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