|
|
|
|
Calendar of Events and Happenings
Alerts
New Posts |
|
Have an event coming up that will use the trail?
Want to see an event happen?
|
|
|
|
|
Date |
Event |
and who to contact |
|
February 25, 2012 |
The “4th Annual” Allegheny Valley Trails Association (AVTA) Fundraiser will be held Saturday, February 25, 2012, at the Knights of Columbus Hall (K of C) located at 1436 Liberty Street, Franklin, PA.
The event will commence at 6:00 PM with a variety of activities, including a silent auction, raffles, door prizes and a brief overview of AVTA’s progress over the past year.
Some of the prizes include (a) two bicycles – hybrid/tandem, (b) kayak, (c) Penguins hockey tickets, (d) Pirate baseball tickets, (e) 1 year golf membership to Lucky Hills Golf Course, (f) framed, local artwork and numerous gift certificates.
Ticket prices are $15.00 per person, $25.00 per couple, and includes your admission as well as lots of good food!!!
Cut-off date for ticket purchases will be February 22 and WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR!
|
|
February 4, 2012 |
Sled Dog Winterfest in Foxburg
A big event of the day will be the Sled Dog Fun Race at RiverStone Farm. The race will begin the day’s activities, with the gates at RiverStone opening at 9:30 AM.
There is no gate admission and there is plenty of free parking. For more details, call 412-867-1816.
Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!
More information: click here. |
|
January 21, 2012 |
1-DAY TRAIL STEWARDSHIP WORKSHOP
Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Edinboro University of PA- The Porreco Center Erie, PA
WHEN: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM COST: Free
WORKSHOP CONTENT: Trail layout, construction, and maintenance; tool selection and use; introduction to Leave No Trace skills & the Ride Smart concept; “Who’s Who” in state land management.
REGISTRATION: Please pre-register by 1/15/12! For more information or to register:
Sarah Dolecki-Taylor 814-734-8799 djnsetaylor@bluefrog.com or
Mary Ellen Longnecker 814-838-4739 mernl@aol.com |
|
October 8, 2011 |
Oil Creek 100 Trail Runs
Concurrent 50K, 50 and 100 mile loop trail races on the rugged Gerard hiking trail at Oil Creek State Park in northwest PA, site of the world's first oil boom.
|
|
August 13, 2011 |
Oil Creek Biathalon
8:30-4:00 6K running and target shooting event
Park manager Jake Weiland said the event — slated for 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, at the park’s cross-country ski trails — is blossoming into one of the best biathlons of its kind in the state and is helping the park earn a name throughout Pennsylvania and beyond as a premier outdoor event destination.
|
|
June 18, 2011 |
Cycling and Health Festival in Waterford, PA
The festival will be hosting the Pennsylvania Cycling Associations 2011 Team Time Trial Championships. This will be a highly competive bike race of teams racing in unison over a course to establish the fastest time without working with other teams. We are planning on a large contingent of racing cyclists from throughout the state attending and racing. The first teams will start at 11AM with the last division starting at 6 PM.
Any organizations, business or individuals promoting cycling, hiking, running, eco-tourism, health, environmental health, active outdoor lifestyles etc. are invited to set up a table. Please be in Waterford and have your displays set up by 10AM (non-profit groups no fee, commercial entities will have a small fee).
|
|
April 30, 2011 |
The Allegheny Valley Trails Association is participating in the 2011 Great American Cleanup of PA with a trail clean up on Saturday, April 30. Clean up starts at 9:00 am at the Trailheads. The clean up should be finished soon after noon. Trash bags and some gloves and safety vest will be provided by PENNDOT. Bring along tools such as pruning shears, broom, shovel, etc. and work gloves.
If you can help, please contact one of the people listed on AVTA's website at http://www.avta-trails.org/ and be at the trailhead at 9:00 AM, April 30 or just show up. |
|
February 19, 2011 |
2011 Clarion Forest Landowners Conference
St. Michael's Hall 18668 Route 208 Fryburg, PA 16326
Connecting private landowners to information and help to improve forestry stewardship on their private properties.
Registration fee: $15.00 per person
Contact the Penn State Cooperative Extension Office Phone: 814-223-9028 Email: ClarionExt@psu.edu |
|
January 29, 2011 |
NW PA Forest & Forest Landowners Conference
Penn State The Behrend College - REDC Building Erie, PA
The goal of this conference is to help you explore and understand some of the management options that are available to you and to provide an opportunity to network and meet other forest landowners.
Pre-registration is required by Friday, January 21, 2011. Registration fee: $20.00 for the first person and $10.00 for one additional person/guest.
Questions: PA Bureau of Forestry - District 14 Phone: 814-723-0262 Email: fd14@state.pa.us |
|
October 22, 2010 |
Western PA Trails Symposium
The Western PA Trails Symposium will bring together the leaders in land and water trail development from Western PA. The symposium stems from the desire to capitalize on our increasingly connected trail system. How can we increase and take advantage of our connections to benefit more from our growing trail system? Western PA is well-poised to be a major statewide and national destination for outdoor recreation. This event is all about working together to capitalize on our success.
www.pecpa.org/trailssymposium2010 Save the Date Postcard! |
|
October 16,
2010 |
Oil Creek 100 Trail Run 5 AM of day one to 4 PM of day two
Est. 300 to 500 participants on the trail system in the areas of Jersey lot to Boughton Acid Works, Miller Farm Area and Petroleum Centre. Contact: Oil Creek State Park Jake Weiland| Park Manager, Phone: 814.676.5915, jweiland@state.pa.us |
|
September 25, 2010 |
Corry Junction Trail
Grand opening ceremonies for the Corry Junction trail are Saturday Sept 25 at noon at the parking lot on Hereford Road. Come join us for the ceremony and post festivities ride with a long and short route featuring the trail!!!! |
|
September 22, 2010 |
East Branch Trail
Opening ceremony for new 3.1 mile segment of a dual lane trail. There is the 8 ft. wide paved multi-use trail for biking and skating and 8 ft. wide gravel lane for equestrian and Amish buggy travel. Ceremoney starts at 10:00 in Clear Lake Park in Spartansburg, PA 16434. |
|
September 17, 2010 |
Three Rivers Heritage Trail - Rt. 28 segment
Join us for a ribbon cutting ceremony on the new section of trail along Route 28 followed by a reception featuring food and beverages at the pavilion at Millvale Riverfront Park. This spectacular new segment is on a raised platform over the river!
|
|
August 22, 2010 |
Drake Well Marathon 7AM to 3 PM
Est. 300 to 500 participants on the trail from Jersey lot to Pioneer
Contact: Oil Creek State Park Jake Weiland| Park Manager, Phone: 814.676.5915, jweiland@state.pa.us |
|
July 17,
2010 |
Allegheny Valley Trails Association annual Fun Ride
Titusville to Foxburg or join them anywhere in between. Breakfast in Titusville and dinner in Foxburg. See AVTA website for more details. Download a flyer here. |
|
|
|
Group News |
|
|
|
| Oil Region Alliance and the City of Franklin and the City of Oil City |
Venango receives 5 conservation grants for more than $300,000
JEREMY JOHNSON
Staff writer
........Frawley said the majority of grants are for Greenway projects that coincide with the organization’s mission to improve recreational accessibility (bike trails, waterways and river accessibility) and environmental protection.
Several of the current grants are for making improvements to the county’s network of bike and multi-use trails. Eventually, those trails are going to be part of a bigger trail network — the Erie-to-Pittsburgh Trail — a project that Frawley said the state is very invested in.
|
| Armstrong Rails to Trails Association |
Grant awarded for trail study, expansion
The Armstrong Trail is one step closer to connecting with Clarion County as a result of a grant approved by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Community Conservation Partnership Program.
According to Ron Steffey, executive director of the Allegheny Valley Land Trust, grant money has been awarded for two Rails-to-Trails projects that will provide greater access to some unique features along the railroad corridor, with the potential to create new revenue in the area. Read more: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
| Friends of the Riverfront |
Plans for Millvale-to-Freeport trail move forward
A preliminary plan to develop a 26-mile recreational trail along the Allegheny River from Millvale to Freeport has won state approval, and trail organizers are moving forward.
"The approval makes sure that every piece of the plan is doable and that it fits into a larger network of statewide trails and greenways," said Tom Baxter, executive director of nonprofit Friends of the Riverfront, which is leading the trail development. It also would serve as another link in the proposed Erie-to-Pittsburgh trail.
Read the whole story: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_762048.html# |
|
Armstrong Rails to Trails Association |
Armstrong Rails to Trails hopes to close the gap
By Roseanne Linko
LEADER TIMES
Monday, July 4, 2011
Despite the wet spring and a few weeks of heat, Armstrong Rails to Trails (ARTA) volunteers continued to self-build trail and to maintain 18 miles of finished trail. Donations to the organization's Chip N Trail Fund have been used to purchase crushed limestone which is being spread over newly graded sections.
Trail building efforts this year are focused between Grays Eddy and Hook Station. A grant was received from the Volunteer Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation, which will be used to purchase additional limestone, letting ARTA add another mile of trail in this area.
For future work, a grant application was submitted by the Allegheny Valley Land Trust (owners of the trail corridor), requesting money to purchase materials to build a five-mile section between Lock & Dam 9 and Phillipston. A second grant was submitted for a feasibility study for a possible campground in the Phillipston area and to evaluate the Brady Tunnel for renovation as a future connection to the Allegheny River Trail.
These projects will reduce the unfinished section of the trail to six miles. Once the gap is closed, bicyclists, walkers and cross country skiers will be able to use 30 miles of continuous trail.
ARTA is also working with neighboring trail systems in an effort to link trails together from Lake Erie to Pittsburgh. Although not complete and rough in sections, the Armstrong trail is "Ready to Ride." Membership is growing and more people are using the trail for fitness and leisure activities, according to the ARTA.
Other projects that have been completed or are in the works this year include improvements to the bridge across Mahoning Creek, a stream stabilization project at mile 47.75 outside of Kittanning and surfacing of the Cowanshannock Connector Trail.
A sewage plant project in East Brady will provide trailhead parking and restrooms along with a shared access road to the new plant and current trail starting point. This project is scheduled to start this fall.
Visit the website at www.armstrongtrail.org to learn more about the trail, activities scheduled and volunteer opportunities. The new trail map and guide is available at the Armstrong County Tourism Bureau and in many local businesses in towns along the trail. For information contact the trail office at 724-543-1783. |
|
Friends of the Riverfront
|
The proposed 16-mile trail along the Allegheny River from Millvale to Freeport is one step closer to fruition.
When complete, plans call for the recreation trail to traverse along the Allegheny River passing through 18 communities including: Pittsburgh, Millvale, Shaler, Etna, Sharpsburg, Aspinwall, Fox Chapel, O'Hara, Blawnox, Harmar, Cheswick, Springdale, Springdale Township, Frazer, Tarentum, Brackenridge, Harrison and Freeport.
The Pittsburgh to Freeport trail would become a part of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail and the Erie to Pittsburgh Trail Alignment.
Read more at in the Trib or at the Friends of the Riverfront website. |
|
Erie to Pittsburgh Trail Alliance |
The emerging Erie-to-Pittsburgh Trail network is like a 260-mile puzzle with more than half the pieces in place. Named for its two Pennsylvania anchor cities, the tagline is “Connecting the Lake to the Point.”
|
|
Friends of the Riverfront |
Relocation of a section of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail near the 31st Street Bridge, including construction of a trail bridge along the edge of the Allegheny River, is expected to be completed sometime in August, said Thomas E. Baxter IV, executive director of Friends of the Riverfront, the project sponsor. It's done!
Read more in the Post Gazette |
|
Clear Lake Authority |
The East Branch Trail is now open for 3.1 miles around Spartansburg! Come and enjoy, see the lake and visit town. |
|
AVTA & the City of Franklin |
 The City of Franklin has now been designated as a Bicycle Friendly Community at the Bronze Level by the League of American Bicyclists. Come and visit and see for yourself! |
|
Oil City |
Detour
The City has discovered structural issues with the pedestrian walkway on the iron railroad bridge over Oil Creek in downtown Oil City, and it is now closed. This walkway also serves as the recreational trail to connect Petroleum Street to the Northside business district.
Center Street bridge or Veteran's Memorial Bridge may be used as alternate routes, however there is no trail signage on these bridges. |
|
Friends of the Riverfront
|
Route 28 Trail Construction: Tom Baxter indicated at a recent EPTA meeting that a June ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held for this vital project, for which construction is slated to finish in mid-May; the engineering, permitting, etc. cost approximately $1 million and the construction cost approximately $3 million. He noted that being part of a Mega Greenway such as Erie-to-Pittsburgh helps with funding.
Another vital section of the system will now be linked. |
|
Rails to Trails Conservancy |
Ms. Pat Tomes indicated the public informational meeting concerning the Erie-to-Pittsburgh Trail held November 16 at the Fire Hall in Freeport, PA had 60 attendees and resulted in media coverage and some additional new volunteers. During June, RTC will conduct a public informational meeting in Erie, on a date to be determined, perhaps near June 5 which is National Trail Day. |
|
Northwest PA Trails Association & Clear Lake Authority |
Two more sections of trail will soon by constructed! The Corry Junction Trail and the East Branch Trail have both been put out to bid and bids awarded. Construction will begin in the spring 2010. |
|
Friends of the Riverfront |
June 2009 - ONLINE INTERACTIVE THREE RIVERS HERITAGE TRAIL MAP
We recently took the paper version of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail Map and made it available online! By visiting www.friendsoftheriverfront.org/map you can take adavantage of all the interactive version has to offer! Zoom in on your favorite spots, save your favorite POI's (points of interest), and leave feedback! Let us know how you love it, like it, or how we can work to improve it! Send your feedback to friends@friendsoftheriverfront.org! |
|
STATE OF THE RIVERFRONT REPORT"Allegheny County's riverfronts are destinations for its' citizens and visitors. They provide recreation, conservation, and access opportunities while maintaining their place as important drivers in the region's industrial, commercial, and residential economies. The Allegheny County Riverfronts Project provides overall planning and coordination for implementation of recreation, conservation, and access. The Pennsylvania Environmental Council works closely with Allegheny County, Friends of the Riverfront and other partner organizations to implement specific projects along the riverfronts." To view the 2009 State of the Riverfront Report and several key projects of Friends of the Riverfront, please click HERE. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|