The " Great American" Route Through West Virginia

The preferred route of the Great American Rail-Trail will travel through the northern panhandle of West Virginia and the town of Weirton, along the Ohio River. While it's the state with the fewest miles of the Great American Rail-Trail, the connection it provides is critical—both for its intersection with other developing trail networks and its historical and regional significance. The state’s Great American gateway trail and sole host trail, the Panhandle Trail is also a key part of the Cleveland-to-Pittsburgh corridor of the Industrial Heartland Trails Coalition—one of RTC’s TrailNation™ projects, which seeks to establish the former industrial heartland into a world-class trail destination and will connect Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and New York via a developing 1,500-mile trail network.