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Wolf Run Trail is a 4.2 mile crushed stone rail trail that runs north from Tannery Row on the edge of Falls Creek, in Clearfield County, to McMinns Summit on State Route 219 in Washington Township, Jefferson County. It follows an old railroad grade up the valleys of Wolf Run and Harveys Run, crossing the streams on four bridges, with Route 219 never far away. The climb is rail grade, a steady and barely noticeable rise toward McMinns Summit, and the woods hold much of the corridor in shade. Gravel lots off Route 219 give access at both ends and near the midpoint. Jefferson County plans to make it the core of a longer trail from Brockway to DuBois.
Wolf Run Trail
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In a typical year the Wolf Run Trail has about 107 to 149 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 Wolf Run Trail peaks October 14 to 24, typically around October 18. The trail has 43% deciduous coverage, with the majority being red maple, black cherry, and northern red oak.
The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway ran this grade north out of Falls Creek toward Brockway, and its business was coal. The railroad was established in 1887 to move bituminous coal from the Pennsylvania mines to New York and beyond. Coal paid its way until the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bought the company in 1932. Pennsylvania DCNR lists the corridor under a second name, Pennsylvania Railroad Line 651, and the sources on file do not settle when the last train ran. The rails are gone. Headwaters Charitable Trust took ownership of the corridor, and Washington Township in Jefferson County took on maintenance. Tricounty Rails to Trails, the volunteer group formed in 1996 for Elk, Jefferson and Clearfield counties, promotes the trail alongside its Clarion-Little Toby Trail to the north. The finished trail runs 4.2 miles from Tannery Row beside Triangle Tech in Sandy Township to McMinns Summit on State Route 219, with three gravel parking lots and four stream bridges. Jefferson County Tourism describes it as a major section of a proposed trail from the Clarion-Little Toby Trail's Brockway trailhead to the city of DuBois, which would close the gap between the two trails.
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