Panhandle Trail

Panhandle Trail
Length29 mi (47 km)
LocationAllegheny County / Washington County, Pennsylvania and Brooke County, West Virginia, USA
TrailheadsWalkers Mill, Pennsylvania
40°23′45″N 80°07′55″W / 40.39589°N 80.13186°W / 40.39589; -80.13186 (Walkers Mill trailhead)
Weirton, West Virginia
40°24′03″N 80°34′55″W / 40.4009°N 80.5820°W / 40.4009; -80.5820 (Weirton trailhead)
UseMulti-use
DifficultyEasy
SeasonYear-round
HazardsRough terrain from Burgettstown, Pennsylvania to the Pennsylvania/West Virginia state line
Trail map

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Walkers Mill
.63
Rennerdale
2.37
Gregg
Settler's Cabin Park connector
3.73
Oakdale
5.75
Sturgeon
7.24
McDonald
7.25
Allegheny/Washington county line
8.18
McDonald Trestle
(carrying Montour Trail)
8.62
Montour Trail connector
8.75
Primrose
10.60
Midway
13.5
Bulger
17
Burgettstown
24.67
Pennsylvania/West Virginia state line
25.22
Colliers
28.49
Harmon Creek
29.44

The Panhandle Trail is a rail trail in southern Pennsylvania and the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. It occupies an abandoned railroad corridor that had been known as the Panhandle route which has been converted to a bicycle and walking trail. The rail line between Burgettstown and Weirton was closed in 1994, but Burgettstown to Walkers Mill closed in 1996. The original section of the trail is the West Virginia section, where the trail was called the Harmon Creek Trail, for the adjacent Harmon Creek. When Pennsylvania built its section, both states agreed to call it the Panhandle Trail. Although the Panhandle Trail occupies 29 miles of the Panhandle Route, the remaining portion of the route is owned by the Pittsburgh and Ohio Central Railroad, but it is no longer used.

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