Rail trail · Cecil Township, Washington County
Montour Trail
Arcing through the countryside west and south of Pittsburgh, a long crushed-stone rail trail with tall trestles, old railroad tunnels and a link toward the Great Allegheny Passage.
What you will find
- Biking
- Hiking trails
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Former coal-mining land west of the city, being healed into a botanic garden of woodland walks, display gardens and a lotus pond fed by treated mine water.
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Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
Ride restored streetcars along a country line and tour barns full of trolleys from across Pennsylvania and beyond, including a New Orleans car from the famed Desire line.
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Hillman State Park
Rolling former strip-mine land reclaimed as woods and fields, managed largely for hunting but laced with trails used by hikers, horseback riders and mountain bikers.
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Duquesne Incline
A cable railway of 1877 climbing Mount Washington in its original wooden cars, with an observation deck looking straight down onto the rivers, the Point and downtown.
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Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
A rock overhang holding some of the oldest evidence of people in North America, with a re-created 16th-century Indian village and a 19th-century rural village.
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Monongahela Incline
Opened in 1870 and widely described as the country's oldest continuously operating funicular, it climbs Mount Washington from Station Square to the overlooks on Grandview Avenue.
