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York County Heritage Rail Trail. / 39.963321; -76.732797. / 39.721088; -76.697953. Heritage Rail Trail County Park is a National Recreation Trail [2] rail-with-trail in Pennsylvania built in 1999 by the York County Rail Trail Authority (YCRTA). [3] It connects with the Torrey C. Brown Rail Trail in Maryland.
John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area – Essex. The Park Homestead was a station on the Underground Railroad. [ 9][ 10] John Freeman Walls Historic Site – Lakeshore. [ 1][ 2] John Freeman Walls, left his enslavers in North Carolina and settled in Canada. The Refugee Home Society supplied the money to buy land and he built a cabin.
Blue Knob State Park is a 6,128-acre (2,480 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Kimmel, Lincoln, and Pavia townships in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. [2] The average annual snowfall at the park is about 12 feet (370 cm). The park is named for Blue Knob, the second highest mountain in Pennsylvania at 3,146 feet (959 m). [2]
The Mid State Trail (MST) is a 327-mile (526 km) linear hiking trail located in the Appalachian Mountains and Allegheny Plateau of central Pennsylvania, United States. [1] It is the longest hiking trail in Pennsylvania, and one of just three (with the Appalachian Trail and North Country Trail) to traverse the state from one border to another.
Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 when a modern stretch opened to ease traffic congestion in the tunnels. In this case, the Sideling Hill Tunnel and Rays Hill Tunnel were bypassed, as was one of the Turnpike ...
Shawnee Lake in 1966. Shawnee State Park is a 3,983-acre (1,612 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Juniata and Napier Townships, Bedford County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Shawnee Lake, a 451-acre (183 ha) warm water reservoir, is at the center of the park as its main attraction. The park's main entrance is just east of Schellsburg, along U ...
U.S. Route 522. U.S. Route 522 ( US 522) is a spur route of US 22 in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The U.S. Highway travels in a north-south direction, and runs 308.59 miles (496.63 km) from US 60 near Powhatan, Virginia, to its northern terminus at US 11 and US 15 near Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
December 22, 1983. The Bedford Historic District is a national historic district located in Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The district includes two hundred and ten contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Bedford. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.