Below is a report on the activities of the Potomac Heritage Trail Association over the last year. I highlighted all the parks that are owned by NOVA Parks to focus on just how much this trail group does to help us. In addition to being one of your many important partners in maintaining our properties, they are also helping out all the other park agencies in the region.
Volunteers are critical to providing great park places for the public, and the Potomac Heritage Trail Association is one of the very best groups out there. THANK YOU!
Potomac Heritage
Trail Accomplishments for 2015
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Scouting a future PHT route from Georges Mill
Road to Route 340, with
major research on public road access
for the PHT route.
Springdale
Regional Park
Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority
purchased 150 acres along the
Potomac River near Point of Rocks, with plans
for a future section of the PHT.
Whites
Ford Regional Park
New PHT logo indicating that the Riverfront
Trail is now a section of the PHT.
Veterans Park at Balls Bluff
New park entrance and Potomac Heritage Trail
sign, with fresh paint blazing.
Potomac Crossing Park
New PHT logo on new park entrance sign.
Balls
Bluff Battlefield Regional Park
Fresh PHT paint blazing, including along Balls
Bluff above the Potomac River.
Edwards Landing Park
Fresh PHT paint blazing.
Sage Hill Farm
New trail near removed pine plantation, with
new PHT paint blazing.
Red
Rocks Wilderness Overlook Regional Park
New PHT paint blazing along White Trail.
Elizabeth Mills Riverfront Park
Fresh PHT paint blazing, new blue hiker logos
at the Goose Creek Overlook
Trail, Kepheart Landing Trail, and Goose Creek
Canal Trail.
Janelia
Farm Trail Easement
Fresh PHT paint blazing, new plastic direction
sign at east end.
Potomac Farm Trail Easement
Fresh PHT paint blazing.
Selden Island
Preliminary talks between the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, Potomac
Conservancy, and Potomac Heritage Trail
Association about opening the
island to the public as a nature preserve and
possible section of the PHT.
Bles Park
Major trail upgrade to the PHT, including new
signage and gravel entrance.
Fresh PHT paint blazing.
Algonkian
Regional Park
Fresh PHT paint blazing, and grand opening of
the popular new Woods Land
Trail. Ira Gabrielson and Algonkian Sanctuary
National Recreation Trail signs
moved to the proper location.
Lowes Island Trail Easement
Fresh PHT paint blazing, with upgrades to trail
sections.
Seneca
Regional Park
Fresh PHT paint blazing, and new PHT logos.
Fraser Preserve
Fresh PHT paint blazing and new PHT logos
Upper Potomac Regional Parklands
Fresh PHT paint blazing and new PHT logos.
Great Falls Park
Repair of road along Difficult Run.
Great Falls to Scotts Run PHT connector trail
Construction of new PHT trail along Capital
Beltway sound wall.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
New Potomac Heritage Trail sign installed by
PATC.
Woodlawn National Historic Trust
Scouting of new section of Potomac Heritage
Trail.
Fort Belvoir
New bike path along Route 1, and scouting of
new section of PHT along
Fort Belvoir and through Accotink Bay Wildlife
Refuge.
Noman Cole Lower Potomac Water Treatment Center
Scouting of new section of PHT, with upgrades
and PHT paint blazing
coming soon.
Joseph Plaskett Park
New PHT paint blazing coming soon.
Laurel Hill Park
New PHT trail along Laurel Crest, with
connections to the Cross County Trail.
Mason Neck Visitor Information Center
Grand opening of major PHT trail gateway
for Mason Neck.
Meadowood Recreation Area
PHT now complete.
Pohick
Bay Regional Park
PHT route now complete, with new PHT
logos.
Gunston Hall National Historic Landmark
New PHT logos.
Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge
New PHT logos.
Mason Neck State Park
New PHT logos.
Civil War Defense of Washington Trail
Major Sierra Club PRO promotional hike in
celebration of Rock Creek Park's
125th anniversary.
Major sections of the Potomac Heritage Trail
have also added new plastic
directional signs, wooden mileage signs,
and Potomac Connection signs.
Glenn
Gillis
Potomac
Heritage Trail Association
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