Penns Valley Rails-To-Trails Program

The Gregg Township Supervisors, in collaboration with the Centre County Planning and Community Development Office, have decided to pursue the development of a Rails-to-Trails Feasibility Study throughout a majority of the Penns Valley Region and a section of the Centre Region along the former historic Lewisburg-Tyrone, Centre and Spruce Creek railroad alignments.

This new trail system is envisioned as one of the hallmark projects developing from the Centre County Recreation and Greenways Plan and would serve as a natural link between the easternmost sections of the Centre Region, in particular Harris and College Townships and their respective communities of Boalsburg and Lemont, and the Penns Valley connecting core communities such as Centre Hall, Spring Mills, and Coburn while also providing linkages to key community educational, recreational, historic and cultural resources.

FINAL REPORT

• Download All Chapters [30 MB .zip file]
  • Table of Contents & Preface (PDF)
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • About This Study (PDF)
  • Chapter 1 - Legal Feasibility (PDF)
  • Chapter 2 - Physical Feasibility (PDF)
  • Chapter 3 - Political Feasibility (PDF)
  • Chapter 4 - Market Feasibility (PDF)
  • Chapter 5 - Design Feasibility (PDF)
  • Chapter 6 - Financial Feasibility (PDF)
  • Chapter 7 - Operational Feasibility (PDF)
  • Appendix A to List of property owners along the right-of-way (PDF)
  • Appendix B to User preference survey results (PDF)
  • Appendix C to Public Meeting Number 1 Presentation (PDF)
  • Appendix D to Public Meeting Number 2 Presentation (PDF)
  • Appendix E to Detailed cost estimates for Penns & Brush Valley Trail (PDF)
  • Appendix F to PNDI findings by trail segment (PDF)
  • Appendix G to Model trail easement (short form) (PDF)
  • Appendix H to Sample trail organization bylaws (PDF)