Each year National Rails to Trails Day is celebrated across America on the first Saturday in June. On Saturday, June 5 at 10:30 AM the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor and Carbon County will host a dedication ceremony to commemorate the connection of the D&L Trail between Jim Thorpe and adjoining Lehigh Gorge State [...]
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National Rails to Trails Day in Jim Thorpe
Posted in Bicycling, Community, Events, Outdoors, tagged bicycle Jim Thorpe, Rails to Trails Jim Thorpe on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Rails-to-Trails Project Bids for Jim Thorpe
Posted in Community, Outdoors, tagged Bicycling Jim Thorpe, Jim Thorpe PA, Rails to Trails Jim Thorpe on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At long last, bids have been solicited and opened for the much-anticipated Rails-to-Trails project that will link the Nesquehoning Trestle (near Glen Onoko Park) with the town of Jim Thorpe. Though the trestle was completed about three years ago, other details and obstacles seemed to hold up completion of the project endlessly. With the purchase [...]
Rails to Trails Path Hurdles Cleared
Posted in Community, Outdoors, tagged Jim Thorpe bicycling, Jim Thorpe PA, Rails to Trails economic benefits, Rails to Trails Jim Thorpe on September 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is now cautious optimism that the work on the Rails to Trails path from the Nesquehoning Trestle to Jim Thorpe can proceed since various legal and logistical hurdles have recently been cleared. The latest information is that the Carbon County Commissioners have resolved litigation issues with the former owner of the land needed to [...]
