Latest Newletter
The final 2024 issue of the Trail-Letter is available online. It was indeed a very good year for Montour Trail Council.
Support What You Love
Montour Trail Council received over $4,000 during this, our first year of participation in Giving Tuesday! These donations will be put toward crucial 2025 capital improvement projects, including the Route 51 sidewalk to enhance trail user safety, streambank protection to minimize flooding, and the Coraopolis connector.
We are still accepting 2024 donations to Montour Trail Council here.
Honor Your Loved Ones
There’s a new way to support the Trail: Honor Bricks are a wonderful expression of respect and appreciation for an important person, pet or event in your life. We call them Honor Bricks because they memorialize those living and gone from our lives. Click to learn more about this tangible tribute, available for Cecil, Peters Township and South Hills locations.
Tour the Montour Success
Sponsors and participants contributed about $70,000 to the Montour Trail Council’s coffers — funding that will be used to keep the trail in pristine condition! Congrats to all the bikers who participated, and thanks to our generous sponsors and indispensable volunteers.
Help Wanted!!
Finance Volunteer Opportunity: MTC seeks a volunteer Accounts Payable Specialist to join our finance team to:
- disburse payments to vendors/suppliers
- prep reimbursement payments to volunteers
- record deposits and ETFs
- update vendor and donor information
- assist with annual audit
- prep reports using QuickBooks standard reports
If interested, contact treasurer@montourtrail.org
MTC Personalized Ornament
This custom-made Lenox ornament is available for online purchase and pickup only at the Montour Trail office in Upper St. Clair.
Montour Trail Council members receive a discount. Click here to order.
This Outstanding Rail-Trail is in Your Back Yard!
The Montour Trail is a multi-use, non-motorized recreational pathway around Pittsburgh, the country’s longest suburban rail-trail. It is privately owned and operated. The main line extends ~47 miles; branch routes increase length to 60+ miles. The relatively flat half-loop stretches from Coraopolis (along the Ohio River) to Clairton (on the Monongahela River). A northwest branch connects directly to Pittsburgh International Airport.
The Montour connects to other rails-to-trails in western Pennsylvania and beyond: the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) and the C&O Canal Towpath, a completed trail system that stretches 300+ miles from Pittsburgh to Washington, DC.; the Panhandle Trail — a converted railroad line that stretches from Weirton, West Virginia, to Carnegie. And this local resource is part of U.S. Bicycle Route 50, which runs east-west and, when completed, will span the country.
Currently, 46 miles of the Montour Trail are continuous with several short gaps in the southeast section.
The Trail is easy to get to by car, as there are access areas and trailheads every few miles along the route. Pittsburgh’s rapid transit system runs near some of these, and it is bike friendly. The Trail is ADA accessible as well.
