Support What You Love
GivingTuesday is a global movement that unleashes the power of generosity and encourages people to do good. We hope you’ll choose to support Montour Trail Council if your finances allow.
Your generosity on Tuesday, December 3, will support crucial 2025 capital improvement work including:
- Rt. 51 (MM 43.5) sidewalk, to enhance trail user safety
- Connector trail from MM 0 to Coraopolis
- Muse branch (~MM 24), to provide good drainage
- Streambank protection, to minimize flooding
- Aging trail bridge east of Greer Tunnel (~MM 28.5)
On December 3, you can donate directly to Montour Trail Council here. Alternatively, you can donate through GiveBig Pittsburgh, the local online donation platform supporting nonprofits.
We hope you’ll join us!
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.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Closing Out 2024, Ringing in 2025
- User survey report
- Trail count
- Vision 2050
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.
