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The Tidioute Rec & Trek Trail follows the west bank of the Allegheny River south from the borough of Tidioute, tracing an abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad grade for a little over four miles to the Warren and Forest county line near Jones Run. It is a wild, simple corridor: rough ballast, dirt, and grass underfoot, heavy tree cover overhead, and the river alongside nearly the whole way. The grade is rail-flat, but roots and coarse surface favor a mountain bike or simply hiking instead. The trail dead ends at private land, so plan an out-and-back from the single trailhead at the lower end of Tidioute.
Tidioute Rec & Trek Trail
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-Cory
In a typical year the Tidioute Rec & Trek Trail has about 106 to 155 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, birding, e-biking, biking, running, and walking, with May, September, and October the best months.
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Enjoy the Tidioute Rec & Trek Trail!
In half of past years, color along the Tidioute Rec & Trek Trail peaks October 12 to 20, typically around October 16. The trail has 66% deciduous coverage, with the majority being red maple, northern red oak, and black cherry.
Before the oil boom, the forested hills around Tidioute fed a lumber economy: timber was rafted down the Allegheny each spring to Pittsburgh, and mills lined the waterways. A year after Drake's 1859 strike at Titusville, oil was found near Tidioute at the mouth of Gordon Run, and the town boomed, incorporating as a borough by 1862. The railroad followed the oil. The line was chartered on April 17, 1861 as the Warren and Tidioute Railway, renamed the Warren and Franklin Railway in 1864, and consolidated in 1868 into the Oil Creek and Allegheny River Railway, which completed the connection in 1867 and let oil leave the valley by rail instead of by barrel and riverboat. After a foreclosure sale in 1875 the line passed to the Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railway and eventually into the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railway and the Pennsylvania Railroad. After the tracks were lifted, the grade south of town within the Allegheny National Forest became a public rail-trail, known variously as the Tidioute Riverside RecTrek Trail, the Tidioute Bird Trail, or the Tidioute Rec & Trek Trail. The Tidioute Lions Club helps keep up the trail today, and recreation has replaced oil and lumber as the river's main economy.
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