"Final Link of Great Allegheny Passage Officially Opens" – Sat. June 15

[PotomacCyclist]

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/06/15/final-link-of-great-allegheny-passage-officially-opens/

So now you can go on that afternoon trip from Georgetown to Cumberland, MD, and Pittsburgh, all on bike trails. Should only take an hour or two. (Well, maybe slightly longer than that.)

http://www.gaptrail.org/index.cfm

I hope to do this trip someday, maybe within a couple years. But not this year.

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[Mikey]

Now we just have to get started on the bike trail from Pittsburgh to Chicago. Nope, never satisfied.

[PotomacCyclist]

Funny you should mention this.

Here’s a start: http://www.ohiorivertrail.org/index.php/cleveland-to-pittsburgh-trail

“The Ohio River Trail Council supports the development of the Cleveland to Pittsburgh Greenway. Presently the North Coast Inland Trail in Ohio aspires to connect Indiana to Pennsylvania. This will require roughly a 270-mile west to east ribbon of trail through northern Ohio to Cleveland and beyond. A 170-mile portion of this route is well-defined. Next, the trail connects with the 85% completed Great Ohio Lake to Erie Greenway which runs north to south about 110 miles from Lake Erie to East Liverpool, Ohio where it would link to the proposed Ohio River Trail which is planned to connect to the Montour Trail in Coraopolis, PA and the Three Rivers Trail in Pittsburgh, PA.”

[PotomacCyclist]

WashCycle posted a link to a USA Today article about the trail. Plenty of nice pictures of the trail and the countryside along the trail.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/dispatches/2013/06/17/great-allegheny-passage/2430525/

[PotomacCyclist]

Frostburg, MD, commissioned two new sculptures from artist Scott Cawood. They were unveiled at Frostburg Sculpture Garden, near the Great Allegheny Passage trail, on Oct. 10, 2014. Cawood titled them “Climb” and “Glide.” Each sculpture depicts a large human head, made out of metal and supported by a bent metal beam. The “hair” and ears are created out of bike wheels, front forks, handlebars and rear cassettes.

Hagerstown Magazine interviewed him earlier in the year about his work and about these two sculptures in particular:

http://www.hagerstownmagazine.com/articleDetail.aspx?id=2473

Cawood posted a photo gallery of the unveiling ceremony, which was attended by the local Congressman, a Maryland state representative and local officials, plus the Maryland State Arts Council. The gallery also includes photos of another sculpture, which was a collaboration between Cawood and Dustin Davis in 2011. That piece is titled “Up and Over.” It’s made of a tall metal column and a metal cyclist riding vertically up one side.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.872140976142968.1073741892.247164231973982&type=1

Cyclists and hikers making the long trip from the C&O Trail to the Great Allegheny Passage Trail will pass by these bike-related sculptures. Maybe a DC-area jurisdiction could commission some pieces from Cawood, to tie together the sections of the C&O/GAP trail network with the bike theme.

[culimerc]

You mean these?
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