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Across from the GAP-WYTC West Newton Visitor’s Center.)
Stop by our WYTC Table to learn more about Trail membership benefits, pick up individually packaged cookies, chips and water.
Stop by the Visitor’s Center in West Newton for free hot dogs and refreshments and get to know your trail neighbors. Find out what the West Newton Station has to offer you and meet the volunteers who make this resource possible for all GAP visitors.
If you join, you may be able to win a bag of Trail goodies!
Also, during Trail Appreciation Day the WYTC is sponsoring "Sale on the Trail", Flea Market, 11AM to 3PM West Newton Train Station.
Looking for vendors for household items, crafts, artwork, antiques. For Information: email wytcnews@hotmail.com
Cost for 10ft x 10ft space is $25.
Set up will be spots in the Northern Lot of the West Newton Station. Space will be a normal tent space of 10ft X10ft.
Rail Car will be open!
Ride and Walk (Bring Family and Friends!)
31st Annual
Labor Day Poker Run
On the Great
Allegheny Passage
Sponsored by the
WestmorelandYough Trail Chapter
The event will start at the Arthur H. King Access Area of the WYTC section of the GAP in West Newton. Proceeds from this fundraiser will be used by trail volunteers to maintain, preserve and enhance the Westmoreland County section of the Great Allegheny Passage.
This event is sponsored and supported by various area merchants. This event is NOT A RACE! Participants walk or bike ride at their own pace, to checkpoints throughout the course where they pick up a playing card. At the end of the event, each poker hand is tallied and the person with the best hand in each category receives a prize. Raffle prizes will be available after 10:00 AM. At 11:00 AM the winners of the best hands in all events will be announced along with the winner of the bike and the 50/50 drawing.
Event takes place on the Great Allegheny Passage
NON-COMPETITIVE EVENTS
Bike - 12 miles level
Bike - 20 miles endurance
Walk/Jog/Wheelchair optional - 4 miles
8:00 AM - Packet Pick-Up & Race Day Registration
8:30 AM - Event Start
RIDE RAIN OR SHINE.
All cyclists are required to wear an ANSI or SNELL certified helmet when riding a bike in the Poker Run and sign a release form. The signature of a parent or guardian is required for all participants under the age of 18 years old.
There will be rest stops and water. Personnel will be available for those unable to finish the course. Volunteers will direct you along the route and EMT personnel will be available for medical assistance.
Walking, Jogging, Wheelchair optional - 4 miles: This 4 - mile walk will begin at the Arthur H. King Access area and proceed north along the Great Allegheny Passage through the village of Collinsburg to the check point at the Westmoreland/Allegheny County line and return to the starting point. The course is totally flat.
Departure - 8:30 AM.
Level Bike Ride - 12 Miles: This 12 - mile ride for cyclists will begin at the Arthur H. King Access Area, proceed south along the Great Allegheny Passage to the check point at Smithton Beach and return to the starting point. The course is totally flat.
Departure - 8:30 AM.
Endurance Bike Ride - 20 Miles: This 20 - mile ride for cyclists will begin at the Arthur H. King Access Area, proceed south along the Great Allegheny Passage and continue past Smithton Beach another four miles to the checkpoint at Whitsett. From Whitsett cyclists will return to the starting point. The course is totally flat.
Departure - 8:30 AM.
Register to walk or ride and win a new bike!
Details to follow.
Tickets $1 or 6 for $5
Stop in the Visitor's Center soon!
In order to maintain the safety of trail users the Regional Trail Corporation, the non-profit organization that owns the property of the Great Allegheny Passage in Allegheny, Westmoreland, and Fayette County, PA, has revised its Mobility Device Policy. The primary purpose of the revision is to set rules for eBike operation. It is an effort to stop the use of throttle only riding of eBikes while allowing pedal assist eBike riding that is important to many riders.
2024-03-27 New wicking long sleeve tee shirts. They are now in stock at the station. Cost is $30.
A 2022 study by Andrew Herr, an economics professor at St. Vincent College, estimates that the trail receives about 1.4 million visits each year, and about 200,000 people ride all the way from one end to the other. That means about a third of the population of Pittsburgh takes the trek from Maryland to the Point every year — and use increases about 10% per year.
The annual economic impact of $120 million has been especially welcome in Appalachian towns long-since bypassed by interstates. The GAP is more than a trail; it’s an economic lifeline.
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
FEB 4, 2023
Read about old abandoned railroad lines that have been converted into recreational trails from East to West. Look for No. 9- our Great Allegheny Passage, 150 miles,from Cumberland, Maryland to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By Cindy Barks. 2020.11.17
Westmoreland Yough Trail Chapter
P.O.Box 242, West Newton, Pennsylvania 15089, United States
Questions: wytcnews@hotmail.com
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