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The Queen City Trail is a short paved path along Oil Creek in Titusville, where the American oil industry began. It runs about a mile and a half between the Jersey Bridge parking lot on Drake Well Road and the Black Bridge trailhead at the end of South Martin Street. Most of the distance is off road behind Titusville Middle School and the Ed Myer sports complex, with the creek on one side and trees over much of the path. A short share the road stretch on Brown and Bank Streets carries the route into town. The trail is flat, an easy town loop or the northern doorstep of the Oil Creek State Park Trail at Jersey Bridge.
Queen City Trail
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-Cory
In a typical year the Queen City Trail has about 106 to 151 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, e-biking, biking, running, birding, and walking, with May, September, and October the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the Queen City Trail peaks October 14 to 23, typically around October 18. The trail has 54% deciduous coverage, with the majority being red maple, black cherry, and northern red oak.
Titusville Leisure Services laid out this path along Oil Creek as an exercise trail in 1982. The ground it crosses is the creek flat where the oil age began. Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil just south of town in August 1859, at a depth of 69.5 feet. Boomtowns sprang up along the creek as derricks replaced the trees, and the valley filled with people. The oil rush drew rails into Titusville, and a working railroad still runs beside the trail. Two local groups formed the Oil Creek Railway Historical Society in 1983 and bought the track, buildings, and real estate on June 6, 1986. Their first excursion train left Titusville on July 18, 1986, and the line also hauls freight for Titusville industries today. The exercise trail of 1982 grew into a paved community connector owned by the City of Titusville. It links downtown with the Ed Myer sports complex, and the Jersey Bridge end meets the Oil Creek State Park Trail, a 9.7 mile piece of the Erie to Pittsburgh Trail. Titusville Renaissance and the Titusville Area Trails Association now promote the trail and run events at Jersey Bridge. The plan is to extend it northwest along Oil Creek to Hydetown, where it would meet the East Branch Trail, for a total of 6.8 miles and one more link in a 270 mile corridor between Erie and Pittsburgh.
