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The Greene River Trail is a crushed limestone rail trail on the west bank of the Monongahela River in Greene County, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. It runs a little over 7 miles from Greene Cove near the mouth of Ten Mile Creek, upstream through the river town of Rices Landing and the former mine community of Crucible, to the Jessop Boat Club trailhead near Carmichaels. The grade is rail flat. North of Rices Landing the path is pinned between the river and a wooded hillside with rock faces; south of town it runs inland beside quiet roads and past the fenced Crucible mine plant. Rices Landing offers parking, restrooms, and the restored W.A. Young and Sons Foundry.
Greene River Trail
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In a typical year the Greene River Trail has about 110 to 155 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, birding, e-biking, biking, running, and walking, with April, May, and October the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the Greene River Trail peaks October 19 to 28, typically around October 23. The trail has 41% deciduous coverage, with the majority being black cherry, red maple, sugar maple, yellow-poplar, and white ash.
John Rice bought riverfront land beside Enoch's Run in 1786, and the landing that took his name became a busy stop for river boats carrying coal and goods down the Monongahela. In 1867 the Pennsylvania General Assembly chartered the Monongahela Valley Railroad to build from Pittsburgh toward Waynesburg. It was renamed the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railway in 1870 and later folded into the Pennsylvania Railroad. Trains reached West Brownsville in 1881 and stopped there for two decades. In 1902 the Pennsylvania, Monongahela and Southern Railroad was organized under the Pennsylvania Railroad to push the line on to Rices Landing. Rails reached Millsboro in January 1907, the Dilworth Mine that October, and Rices Landing in February 1908. Service to Crucible began on December 15, 1913, and the first passenger train arrived there on New Year's Day 1914. In 1918 the railroad announced an extension past Crucible to Nemacolin to serve the Buckeye Coal Company. Coal from the river mines was the cargo for the next half century. The Nemacolin line was retired in 1968 after the mine closed, and by the 1990s the corridor sat idle. Greene County built the Greene River Trail on the abandoned bed and held a formal dedication on May 23, 2000. Expansions followed in 2001, 2008, and 2019, and the county now lists the trail at just over 7 miles from Greene Cove to the Jessop Boat Club.
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