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Great Allegheny Passage Economic Impact Report: A Gift to the Trails World

December 8, 2021 • Articles

A directional sign pointing people toward a retail shop and ice cream

There’s been a buzz about the trails community since the Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy released its latest economic impact report. It’s the first economic impact study on the GAP since the trail was completed in 2013. The economic growth is impressive: the GAP Conservancy attributes $74 million in direct spending (2019) to GAP trail use, […]

Topics: Trail Towns and Communities, Trails and Nature, Travel and Tourism

Shoulder Season Bike Touring Calls for Preparation, Trail Angels, and Grace

October 18, 2021 • Articles

Thoughts on fall bike overnights I’m part of a Facebook group that’s dedicated to the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal Towpath. The group has more than 14,000 members, many of whom are planning and celebrating their trail trips and offering each other support along the way. It’s fun to see how many people are […]

Topics: Trail Towns and Communities, Trails and Nature, Travel and Tourism

Fancy Like a Hometown Diner?

October 4, 2021 • Articles

Image of the Melrose Diner in Philadelphia

The importance of supporting local businesses I’m not one to keep up on modern country music or TikTok dance sensations. If not for my cousin’s recent wedding I would be totally out of the loop on Walker Hayes’s song, “Fancy Like” and the dance it inspired. But seeing a bunch of people line up and […]

Topics: Trail Towns and Communities

“Taking Heart” in Responses to Deciding on Trails

February 1, 2021 • Articles

The final section of Deciding on Trails is titled, “Taking Heart in Trails.” A little over a month since publishing, I can say that I have taken heart in the positive response to the book.

Topics: small business, Trail Towns and Communities

Community Pain Points in the time of COVID

May 12, 2020 • Articles

I have a lot of thoughts (and questions) around how trail communities – how any community – will recover from the pandemic. But in this moment, I simply want to acknowledge what a difficult time this has been for people.

Topics: Covid Recovery, Most Popular, Pain Points, Trail Towns and Communities, Travel and Tourism

Getting Outside in a Time of Social Distancing

March 19, 2020 • Articles

Life has changed pretty significantly over the last couple of weeks. I sense that we’re all doing the best we can to get by despite the very real hardships that so many of us face. One of the things that’s been on my mind, like many of you, is how safe is it to go […]

Topics: Covid Recovery, Trails and Nature

Are we Hungry for Thriving Communities?

February 17, 2020 • Articles

In her memoir, Hunger, Roxane Gay writes of romantic relationships, “…it’s a shame that the measure is what is not so bad instead of what is thriving and good.” That insight caught my attention because it’s true for so many people. No doubt, we all have friends or family members who stay in relationships that […]

Topics: placemaking, pride of place, Trail Towns and Communities

Outdoor Adventures with Your Nervous Dog

August 21, 2019 • Articles

Time in the car has a way of connecting us back to our grief. While traveling in Wisconsin recently, I was reminded that I really miss my dog. By this trip, it had been about nine weeks since he died. Quill, a fear-aggressive German Shorthaired Pointer, spent close to nine years hopping in and out […]

Topics: Travel and Tourism

Rolling Into Summer Retreat

June 4, 2019 • Articles

Group of women in bike helmets, piling over each other for a selfie

This very moment is everything I noticed yesterday that I had “Rolling Into Summer?” (with a question mark at the end) on my calendar for June 1-2. That’s because when I first penciled it in, I wasn’t sure that I would go on to host my first overnight nature retreat. Truth be told, I didn’t […]

Topics: Biking, Experiences, human connection, Most Popular, Trails and Nature

Cycling Through the Seasons

January 23, 2019 • Articles

From maple festivals and everything pumpkin spice to Solstice celebrations and Seasonal Affective Disorder, our lives are very much influenced by the four seasons. Our moods can be impacted by shorter days or, say, by the rainiest year on record (hello, Pittsburgh in 2018).   We feel free of winter’s clutches the first spring day we […]

Topics: nature, Outdoor Experiences

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