This page provides a guide to abandoned railroad right-of-ways converted to rail-trails for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, and recreation in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Arkansas River Trail - 17-mile trail along the Arkansas River in Little Rock, Arkansas, built on former railbed and along active railroad right-of-ways
Brooklyn to Southside Junction Trail - 6-mile rail-trail in the New River Gorge from Brooklyn to Thurmond, West Virginia
Cargill Long Park Trail - 3-mile rail-trail in Longview, Texas
Chaparral Rail Trail - 57-mile rail-trail under development between Farmersville and Paris, Texas
Columbia Tap Rail-Trail - 4-mile paved rail-trail in Houston, Texas
Cotton Belt Trail - Rail-trail follows a former Cotton Belt Railroad alignment in North Richland Hills, Colleyville, and Grapevine, Texas
Delta Heritage Trail - Rail-trail under development along the 73-mile former Union Pacific right-of-way that stretches from one mile south of Lexa to Cypress Bend, Arkansas
Denton Branch Rail Trail - 8-mile rail-trail on the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad grade between Denton and Corinth, Texas
Lake Mineral Wells Trailway - 20-mile rail-trail between Mineral Wells and Weatherford, Texas on the former Texas & Pacific Railway (later Union Pacific)
Louisiana Trails - 63-mile trail on a former Kansas City Southern Railway grade between Sibley and Winnfield, Louisiana
Osage Prairie Trail - 14-mile trail on the former Midland Valley Railroad grade in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ozark Highlands Trail - 200+ mile trail through the Ozark Mountains in northwest Arkansas, including sections of former railroad grade
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy - Preserves unused rail corridors in the US by transforming them into trails
Tammany Trace Trail - 31-mile paved rail-trail on the former Illinois Central Railroad corridor along the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana
Trail de Paris - 6-mile trail-trail in Paris, Texas
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