Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Milo Bateman/Rails to Trails Conservancy Aerial view of the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Panhandle Trail. Imagine crossing the ...

SEATTLE — As I ride through the heart of the mountain, a tiny fear takes hold. I should’ve anticipated it, considering all the warnings I’d heard at the old Hyak train station moments before I entered ...

The Burke-Gilman Trail is about 20 miles, but the road to becoming a Seattle transportation icon is vastly longer. “From Rails to Trails,” a new PBS documentary narrated by Edward Norton premiering ...

Forget crowded highways and cramped car rides. The ultimate mancation awaits on America's converted railroad corridors, where history meets adventure on two wheels. These rail-to-trail bike paths ...

In 1977, the company that operated the Milwaukee Road went bankrupt, and three years later its route through Washington, Idaho and Montana was abandoned, becoming “the single longest rail abandonment ...