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Trails
Home » Inline Skating » Places to Skate » TrailsA wonderful movement emerged in the mid-1980’s to turn old, abandoned railroad lines into usable trails for cyclists, runners, joggers and walkers. The Rails to Trails Conservancy has facilitated hundreds of local communities in turning this seemingly unusable land into the perfect outdoor park. People often comment that these trails are the “narrowest” parks in the world, with a breath of no more than a hundred feet. But hundreds and hundreds of miles of these “narrow parks” exist all over the United States. Even better, this trend has started to take root all over the world. In the United States, there are over 1300 trails across the country, and many of these have been created from old rail lines. Some of the most popular include the 45 mile long Washington and Old Dominion Trail in northern Virginia, just outside of Washington; the 38 mile Silver Comet Trail from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Alabama border (where plans are to connect to another trail that goes all the way to Aniston, Alabama); and the ten-mile Minuteman Bikeway near Boston, Massachusetts where you can skate along historical sites of the American Revolution. Times have changed, haven’t they? Paul Revere rode, and you can roll! Interested in a trail near you? Look online at www.TrailLink.com. If you are outside the United States, then www.skatelog.com offers links to skating venues all over the globe.
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