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Opening Day for Trails

Pledge to Get Outside—and Win a New Ride!

Can you feel it? Trail season is here! We can hardly wait to get out this weekend and celebrate Opening Day for Trails! With nearly 150 events planned across the country, it's our biggest Opening Day ever! Pledge to get outside and have some fun on Saturday, April 16—and you could find yourself behind the bars of a brand-new Fuji bicycle!

Pledge to Get Outside!

Our Biggest Ever!

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), in coordination with a variety of great partners, is hosting some awesome rides and events in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin and California. Join us! Learn more.

Hit the Trails With Performance Bicycle

On Opening Day 2016, Performance Bicycle will host Great Rides—geared toward all skill levels—at all 104 stores in the U.S. Read this interview with Performance’s community relations manager, Chris London, for more.

Trail of the Month Rugged Rockies Paradise Take a 42-mile trail corridor along the Roaring Fork River, and combine with sage brush, ranchlands and jagged mountains. Add a few famous ski slopes and a Hunter S. Thompson haunt. That's your recipe for a trail users’ paradise—Old West Style. Visit Colorado's Rio Grande Trail, April's Trail of the Month.

RTC Sojourn Series Six Great Things You'll See on the North Bend Rail Trail Winding through the lush and rocky Appalachian region, the North Bend Rail Trail exemplifies "wild and wonderful" West Virginia. Learn more about the 72-mile pathway, which is the setting of this year's 2016 Classic Sojourn event, June 19-22.

Miami-to-Everglades ... and Back Again Like birds winging south for the winter, more than 70 riders flocked to the sunny climate and balmy breeze of southern Florida to bike RTC’s inaugural Florida Sojourn. It was an awesome ride—and here’s why.

Features 1,450-Mile Network to Revitalize Industrial Heartland The vision: a 1,450-mile system of off-road trails that connect the major centers of the American Rustbelt and industrial Appalachia spanning 48 counties and four states: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and New York. Here’s a closer look at this ambitious project.

From the Magazine

Sparking a Greater Philly Transformation

For the past five years, the Circuit Trails network has been growing throughout Greater Philadelphia, with long-term plans to stretch across nine counties. It will eventually connect with the East Coast Greenway, enveloping a 3,000-mile off-road route reaching Calais, Maine, and Key West, Florida. Get a closer look in this in-depth article from Rails to Trails.

Five Amazing Rail-Trails for Your Bucket List Learn why these five trails—RTC’s 2016 Rail-Trail Hall of Fame nominees—are not just important players in America’s rail-trail movement, but also incredible trail destinations.

TraiLink.com

TrailLink Opens the Way for Opening Day

Looking for a fun new trail to check out this weekend for Opening Day for Trails? TrailLink.com makes it easy to find a trail that’s just right for you; you can search our nationwide database by location and keyword, and filter the results by length, surface and activity. You can also share trail pages via the Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus links, so it’s a snap to plan trail meetups with family and friends. Once you’re ready to go, take the website with you via the TrailLink app. Try it for free; your first trail map download is on us!

Tell Us "Now Open" or On Its Way! Do you know about a new rail-trail project in your area? Rails to Trails magazine wants to know.