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61 relations: Allegheny Mountains, Allegheny River, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Appalachian Mountains, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Big Savage Mountain, Big Savage Tunnel, Borden Tunnel, Brush Tunnel, Canal Place, Carrie Furnace, Casselman River, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, Cumberland Bone Cave, Cumberland, Maryland, Cycling, Dead Man's Hollow, Deal, Pennsylvania, Dravo Cemetery, Duquesne, Pennsylvania, Eastern Continental Divide, Erie to Pittsburgh Trail, Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frostburg, Maryland, Kennywood, Long-distance trail, Maryland, Mason–Dixon line, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, Monongahela River, Montour Trail, National Recreation Trail, Ohio River, Ohio River Trail, Ohiopyle State Park, Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Pittsburgh International Airport, Point State Park, Potomac Heritage Trail, Rail trail, Salisbury Viaduct, Smilodon, Three Rivers Heritage Trail, ..., Trail, Union Railroad (Pittsburgh), Walking, Washington, D.C., West Homestead, Pennsylvania, Western Maryland Railway, Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, Whitewater, Wills Creek Bollman Bridge, Youghiogheny River, Youghiogheny River Trail. Expand index (11 more) »
Allegheny Mountains
The Allegheny Mountain Range, informally the Alleghenies and also spelled Alleghany and Allegany, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less technologically advanced eras.
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Allegheny River
The Allegheny River is a principal tributary of the Ohio River; it is located in the Eastern United States.
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American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is a standards setting body which publishes specifications, test protocols and guidelines which are used in highway design and construction throughout the United States.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.
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Big Savage Mountain
The two Big Savage Mountain (Maryland and Pennsylvania) summits are part of Savage Mountain.
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Big Savage Tunnel
The Big Savage Tunnel is a formerly abandoned railway tunnel located about southeast of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania.
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Borden Tunnel
The Borden Tunnel is a 957-foot long, formerly abandoned, railway tunnel located about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Frostburg, Maryland.
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Brush Tunnel
Brush Tunnel is a railroad tunnel located about west of Corriganville, Maryland.
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Canal Place
Cumberland basin (looking at Guard lock #8) at the end of the C & O Canal. Canal Place is a state park located in Cumberland, Maryland at the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
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Carrie Furnace
Carrie Furnace is a former blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, and it had formed a part of the Homestead Steel Works.
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Casselman River
The Casselman River is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is located in the District of Columbia and the states of Maryland and West Virginia.
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Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Connellsville is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Pittsburgh on the Youghiogheny River, a tributary of the Monongahela River.
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Cumberland Bone Cave
The Cumberland Bone Cave is a fossil-filled cave along the western slope of Wills Mountain on the outskirts of Cumberland, Maryland near Corriganville in Allegany County, Maryland.
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Cumberland, Maryland
Cumberland is a city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland, United States.
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Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.
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Dead Man's Hollow
Dead Man's Hollow is a 450-acre conservation area.
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Deal, Pennsylvania
Deal is an unincorporated community near Meyersdale in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 21 miles northwest of Cumberland, Maryland.
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Dravo Cemetery
The Dravo Cemetery, sometimes called the Historic Dravo Cemetery, is a cemetery located in Elizabeth Township along the Youghiogheny River Trail, south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Duquesne, Pennsylvania
Duquesne is a city along the Monongahela River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
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Eastern Continental Divide
The Eastern Continental Divide (ECD) or Appalachian Divide or Eastern Divide, in conjunction with other continental divides of North America, demarcates two watersheds of the Atlantic Ocean: the Gulf of Mexico watershed and the Atlantic Seaboard watershed.
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Erie to Pittsburgh Trail
The Erie to Pittsburgh Trail is a rail trail currently in development in Western Pennsylvania and Western New York.
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Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
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Frostburg, Maryland
Frostburg is a city in Allegany County, Maryland, United States, and is at the head of the Georges Creek Valley.
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Kennywood
Kennywood is an amusement park located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
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Long-distance trail
A long-distance trail (or long-distance track, path, footpath or greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas, used for non-motorized recreational walking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
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Mason–Dixon line
The Mason–Dixon line, also called the Mason and Dixon line or Mason's and Dixon's line, was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America.
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McKeesport, Pennsylvania
McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania; it is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
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Meyersdale, Pennsylvania
Meyersdale is a borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on the Casselman River, southeast of Pittsburgh.
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Monongahela River
The Monongahela River — often referred to locally as the Mon — is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Montour Trail
The Montour Trail is a multi-use recreational rail trail near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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National Recreation Trail
National Recreation Trail (NRT) is a designation given to existing trails that contribute to health, conservation, and recreation goals in the United States.
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Ohio River
The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.
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Ohio River Trail
The Ohio River Trail (ORT) is composed of two entities, the Ohio River Water Trail and the Ohio River Greenway Trail.
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Ohiopyle State Park
Ohiopyle State Park is a Pennsylvania state park on in Dunbar, Henry Clay and Stewart Townships, Fayette County, Pennsylvania in the United States.
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Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
Ohiopyle is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE), also known as the "Little Giant", was formed on May 11, 1875.
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Pittsburgh International Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport, formerly Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, is a civil–military international airport in the eastern United States, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Point State Park
Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park on in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River.
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Potomac Heritage Trail
The Potomac Heritage Trail, also known as the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail or the PHT, is a designated National Scenic Trail corridor spanning parts of the mid-Atlantic and upper southeastern regions of the United States that will connect various trails and historic sites in the states of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.
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Rail trail
A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling.
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Salisbury Viaduct
The Salisbury Viaduct is a bridge in Somerset County, Pennsylvania near Meyersdale.
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Smilodon
Smilodon is an extinct genus of machairodont felid.
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Three Rivers Heritage Trail
The Three Rivers Heritage Trail is an urban rail-trail paralleling the riverbanks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for about, often on both sides of the rivers, and offering views of the city.
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Trail
A trail is usually a path, track or unpaved lane or road.
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Union Railroad (Pittsburgh)
The Union Railroad is a Class III switching railroad located in Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania.
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Walking
Walking (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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West Homestead, Pennsylvania
West Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela River.
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Western Maryland Railway
The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad (1852–1983) which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
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Western Maryland Scenic Railroad
The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad (WMSR) is a heritage railroad based in Cumberland, Maryland.
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Whitewater
Whitewater is formed in a rapid, when a river's gradient increases enough to create so much turbulence that air is entrained into the water body, that is, it forms a bubbly or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white.
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Wills Creek Bollman Bridge
The Wills Creek Bollman Bridge originally served the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Pittsburgh Division main line.
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Youghiogheny River
The Youghiogheny River, or the Yough for short, is a U.S. Geological Survey.
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Youghiogheny River Trail
The Yough River Trail is a non-motorized multi-use rail trail that stretches between McKeesport and Confluence, Pennsylvania.
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Redirects here:
Cumberland & Pittsburgh Trail, Cumberland and Pittsburgh Trail, Pittsburgh-Washington D.C. bike/walking trail.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Allegheny_Passage
