“Now that we’ve connected the Great Allegheny Passage 150 miles to Cumberland,” says Linda McKenna Boxx, Allegheny Trail Alliance (ATA) President, “joining the C&O Canal Towpath, we go straight from McKeesport to Georgetown.” That’s some 300 off-road, bike-trail miles — with nine more to come. (That last teensy piece, between McKeesport and Pittsburgh, is confidently expected within a year.) “Now this has become a real international tourism destination,” Boxx adds. “People were waiting for this.” Read more»