Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail - Plan Your Visit (U.S. National Park Service)

As of autumn 2008, the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail network includes 830 miles of existing and planned trails and trail corridors managed by different agencies and organizations:

• the 70-mile Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail, within Laurel Ridge State Park;

• the 150-mile Great Allegheny Passage (connecting Cumberland, Md., and Pittsburgh, Penn.), a system of seven trails managed by an alliance of organizations and agencies;

• the 184.5-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath within Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park;

• a 15-mile linear park system in Loudoun County, Vir.;

• 7.7 miles of trails within Riverbend Park, Great Falls Park and Scott’s Run Nature Preserve in northern Fairfax County, Vir.;

• two partially-completed routes within the District of Columbia—the 23-mile Fort Circle Parks Trail, part of the Civil War Defenses of Washington, and a multi-use route between Georgetown and Oxon Cove Park;

• the 18.5-mile Mount Vernon Trail and the 10-mile Potomac Heritage Trail within George Washington Memorial Parkway;

• a 27-mile Potomac Heritage Trail On-Road Bicycling Route in Prince Georges County, Md.;

• a one-mile trail along the north shore of Piscataway Creek in Piscataway Park;

• a two-mile route within Nanjemoy Natural Resource Management Area, Charles County, Md.;

• the Southern Maryland Potomac Heritage Trail Bicycling Route in Charles and St. Mary’s counties;

• two 4.5-mile routes in Prince William Forest Park and a partially-completed 8-mile route, between Leesylvania State Park and Belmont Bay, in Prince William County;

• the 23-mile Alexandria Heritage Trail in Alexandria, Vir.;

• the Government Island Trail, the planned five-mile Historic Falmouth-Ferry Farm Trail, and the Aquia Creek Water Trail in Stafford County, Vir.; and

• the Northern Neck Heritage Trail Bicycling Route Network in the four-county area of Westmoreland, Northumberland, Lancaster and Richmond (Virginia).