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trail head. This event includes a 15km hike, a 30km bike ride, and runs of 5km and 15km. Each fall the CVRT stages its annual “Fall Down on the Trail” from the
Newville trailhead. This event includes a 5km race and 4 mile hike. Other walks and rides on the trail have been organized by the following
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The
Cumberland Valley Railroad (CVR) began service in the Cumberland Valley on the current CVRT corridor in 1837. In 1838 CV was the first railroad in the U.S. to offer overnight sleeping cars. Twenty years later, John Brown and his abolitionist compatriots traveled to Harpers Ferry on CVR to stage
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The CVRT is managed and maintained by the
Cumberland Valley Rails-to-Trail Council (CVRTC). The CVRTC is an all-volunteer, non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable corporation dedicated to conservation, historic preservation, recreation, and alternative transportation through the development of multi-use
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The majority of the trail's ten-foot-wide walking-biking path consists of crushed, then packed limestone. The trail becomes macadam at the eight secondary road crossings which are all and marked with perpendicular crossing angles. The trail is wheelchair accessible and all road crossings meet ADA
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their famous raid. After the Civil War began, CVR played a strategically important role by transporting Union troops to the
Shenandoah Valley. CVR also served as a resupply route for Union troops. During the war Confederate forces destroyed various sections of CVR roadbed.
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trails along former railroad corridors and other areas. In addition to state and federal funding and dues collected from local members of the CVRTC, the following local and community organizations have provided funding and in-kind support for the CVRT:
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at the CVRT's eastern terminus. Access to the trail near its midpoint, is provided at the
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705:Ohio River
635:Ghost Town
372:October 3,
348:References
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89:Difficulty
66:Trailheads
790:West Penn
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725:Perkiomen
720:Pennypack
715:Panhandle
630:Five Star
565:Armstrong
491:cahwf.org
471:April 19,
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