![]() ![]() ![]() This section of trail is maintained by the TAMED – Trail Association of McKean & Elk Divide. 219 at Lantz Corners is expected to be completed by 2022. Please remember to be courteous, especially at the golf course section of trail if people are hitting or putting. There is also parking behind the Kane Area High School, near the trail bridge over the active railroad line. ![]() Trailhead parking is across from the Country Fair along Route 6 near Kane, and Welsh Street near the old train depot. No snowmobiles or horses are permitted on this section of trail as it is close to residential homes. 219 at Lantz Cornersįamily biking along Knox & Kane Rail TrailCurrently a 4.5-mile trail from the Route 6 Kane Country Club, through Kane to Lamont is open ONLY FOR BIKING & HIKING. Kane to Lamont, Kane to Kane Country Club, Country Club to Rt. This section of trail is maintained by the MJ2KB Trail Club – Mount Jewett 2 Kinzua Bridge State Park. Jewett trailheadThe second trailhead is at the overflow parking lot at the Kinzua Bridge State Park, 296 Viaduct Road, Mt. Jewett is behind the Borough office building features an information kiosk, bike rack and bicycle repair station it is located at the intersection of Center Street and Peterson Street. Jewett to Lantz CornersĪ 7.5-mile crushed limestone surface trail open for hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling, and horseback riding. 219 crossing at Lantz Corners is expected to be fully completed by 2022. Jewett, Lantz Corners, Kane Knox & Kane Rail TrailA long-distance trail, with the sections from Lantz Corners to the Kinzua Bridge State Park, and Kane to Lamont is now open. As the age of rail was ending in Northwest Pennsylvania, entrepreneurs and communities tried to keep the B&O Northern Division alive as a railroad, but it was not to be.Knox & Kane Rail Trail Kinzua Bridge State Park, Mt. Instead, the old B&O is finding new life as the region’s newest rail trail. The Rail 66 Country Trail is Clarion County’s part of that trail project. When finished, it will start at a place once called Clarion Junction, west of Clarion in the village of Marianne. From there it will roughly parallel Route 66 north through the villages of Lucinda, Snydersburg, Leeper, Crown and Vowinckel to become part of a 74-mile trail to the famous Kinzua Bridge. ![]() The Rail 66 Country Trail follows the path of the narrow-gauge Pittsburgh and Western Railroad, built in the late 1800s. That line became the standard-gauge Northern Division of the Baltimore and Ohio, and ran from Pittsburgh to Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y. For most of the 20th Century the B&O shipped coal, lumber, and freight from mines, forests and local glass factories. When these industries declined, the Knox and Kane Railroad acquired the B&O right of way.īeginning in 1982, the Knox and Kane took tourist excursions from Marienville through Kane and Mt. Jewett to the Kinzua Bridge, one of the highest railroad bridges east of the Mississippi. After a tornado toppled a section of the Kinzua Bridge in 2003, the Knox and Kane ceased operations. The line was purchased by the Kovalchick Corporation and the rails and ties were salvaged.Īl Lander of Lucinda leased four miles of the rail bed property from Kovalchick and paved it through the Lucinda-Snydersburg area for easy hiking, jogging and bicycling. The people of the neighborhood liked the trail and soon a community group formed to support and further develop it. ![]()
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