Rails to Trails Conservancy, the nation's largest trails, walking and biking advocacy organization, has released progress ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tanya Mohn reports on road safety, sustainable transport, and cycling. Sep 23, 2025, 10:26pm EDT Sep 24, 2025, 02:38pm EDT “From ...

Rails to Trails Conservancy is hosting its Celebrate Trails Day on April 26. This annual spring celebration of America’s trails, which Rails to Trails has organized since 2013 on the fourth Saturday ...

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The Headwater Connector, Solon’s first and Ohio’s latest rail trail, could break ground in 2026. Credit: Open Space Institute Years ago, Solon Mayor Ed Kraus had somewhat of a wake-up call. He was out ...

The story of a 60-year struggle to convert abandoned railroads into trails for cycling and walking. Edward Norton narrates the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

There are 26,000 beautiful miles of rail-trails in America and so many great stories to tell and so many more I’d like to have told. But I focused on the larger points about the movement. We started ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shaded by lowland hardwoods, the 1.5-mile-long trail running through Laura Stark’s memory leads to Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. On weekends, Stark’s ...

Step aboard PBS’s From Rails to Trails. The documentary premiering October 15 tracks the 60-year struggle of one of America’s most unlikely grassroots movements. Narrator Edward Norton plays conductor ...