Cycling the Montour and Panhandle Trails

Cycling the Montour and Panhandle Trails

The connector trail between the GAP and the Montour is not yet completed. We picked up the Montour Trail at its southeastern terminus in Clairton Park, Clairton, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. Honored as the Pennsylvania Trail of the Year in 2017, the Montour is the ‘nations’s longest suburban rail-trail’ and the main line stretches about 47 miles. In 2019 and 2020, readers of Pittsburgh Magazine named the Montour Trail Best in the Burgh in the hiking/biking category. It’s an awesome trail, extremely well maintained by volunteer members of the Montour Trail Council. We cycled about 31 miles of it until it intersected with the Panhandle Trail.

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Truth or Consequences and on to Fort Davis, Texas

Truth or Consequences and on to Fort Davis, Texas

We’d never visited Truth or Consequences (T or C to locals), New Mexico in the past, but it was on the way as we headed south from Albuquerque plus the town is adjacent to Elephant Butte Lake State Park where we camped… and, it had a Walmart SuperCenter. So it was only natural we’d stop and check it out. Plus just the town’s name makes you curious, doesn’t it?

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