A New 4,000 Mile Coast to Coast Bike Trail Is Coming
If you’d love to see the United States in the greenest way possible, there soon will be a new 4,000-mile bike trail that will take you across the entire fruited…
WASHINGTON – OCTOBER 18: A foot trail cuts through the woods near the secluded part of Rock Creek Park where authorities say Ingmar Guandique murdered Federal Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy in 2001 October 18, 2010 in Washington, DC. Guandique’s trail begins today in Washington. Authorities say that based on jailhouse conversations and letter he had written, Ingmar Guandique, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, attacked, raped and killed Levy in the DC park in 2001. Levy, who had completed her internship and was about to return home to California, disappeared on May 1, 2001 and her skeletal remains were found near this wooded spot about a year later.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesIf you'd love to see the United States in the greenest way possible, there soon will be a new 4,000-mile bike trail that will take you across the entire fruited plain.
Setting off in the nation's capital, riders can travel through 12 states along The Great American Rail Trail, eventually reaching Washington in the Pacific Northwest.
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is currently working on the project, which is only about half completed, but they will release the full route this spring.
Keith Laughlin, RTC's president, calls the vision, "the single greatest trail project in the history of the U.S."
