Join us for the 14th Annual Fall Down on the Trail 5k Race and 4 Mile Hike on October 2, 2010

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Cumberland Valley Rails-to-Trails Council CVRTC is an all-volunteer, non-profit, charitable corporation currently developing the 11-mile Cumberland Valley Trail, from Shippensburg to Newville, in Cumberland County PA. Learn more About CVRTC

Cumberland Valley Rails-to-Trails Council Are you interested in seeing the trail extended to Carlisle?   We are currently working with Cumberland County trying to make it happen but we need some Carlisle based volunteers to take up the challenge.  Click here for more information on a possible extension. 

National Recreation Trails The Cumberland Valley Rail-Trial was designated a National Recreation Trail. National Recreation Trails are components of the National Trails System and recognize existing trails that connect people to important natural, recreational and cultural places and improve their quality of life.  Click here for more information.  Click here to go to the National Recreation Trails web site.

Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation CVRTC recently received a grant from the Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation to educated people on the importance of wearing a bicycle helmet and to provide helmets to individuals that need one.  The helmets were distributed at Get Movin' Night at the Nancy Grayson Elementary School, the  Race, Run, Ride & Ramble held by CVRTC and to the Shippensburg Area Head Start.   All the helmets have now been distributed.  We thank the Carlisle Area Health & Wellness Foundation for making this program possible.

Work Days

Now that the Cumberland Valley Rail -Trail is mostly complete,  we must turn our attention the the care and maintenance of the trail. CVRTC depends on local membership dues and contributions to pay for the maintenance of the trail. We receive no funding from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), or from any government entity.  CVRTC also depends on volunteers to provide all the labor. Consider adopting a section of the trail, arranging a work day with your group or coming as an individual to one of our a work days.  If you would like to be notified of future work days or if you or your group would like to schedule you own work day please contact us at info@cvrtc.org


Millennium Trails Check out some photos of the trail, ribbon cutting ceremony and Annual Events in our  Photo Galleries.

Donate Online

Make an online donation to CVRTC through ActiveGiving.com

Flora and Fauna

Vern Gauthier sent us a list of birds seen on the trial between Newville and Oakville over the last 3 years.  A total of 32 of the birds were new to our list.  Several new birds were spotted by  Dave C.  We now have a total of 97 different birds seen along the trail.
Help us catalog the Flora and Fauna found along the trail by submiting what you see.

Flora and Fauna

It has been our good fortune to have several eagle scout projects completed or underway along the rail-trail.   Since we are frequently asked for ideas for more projects, we decided to start a list of ideas and post them here. 

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