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This page provides a guide to abandoned railroad right-of-ways converted to rail-trails for hiking, cycling, horseback riding, snowmobiling, and recreation in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada.
Boreas Pass Trail - 17-mile rail-trail for driving and biking between Breckenridge and Como, Colorado
George S. Mickelson Trail - 114-mile trail from Deadwood to Edgemont, South Dakota, including more than 100 converted railroad bridges and four hardrock tunnels
Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail - 28-mile rail-trail which begins at Park City, Utah and follows Interstate 80 through Wanship and Coalville to Echo Reservoir
Iron King Trail - 4-mile rail-trail built on the grade of the Prescott & Eastern Railroad in Prescott Valley, Arizona
Lake Mead Historic Railroad Tunnel Trail - 4-mile rail-trail with five tunnels along the former U.S. Government Construction Railroad for Hoover Dam in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada
Medicine Bow Rail-Trail - 21-mile trail built on the former Laramie, Hahns Peak & Pacific Railroad grade near Laramie, Wyoming
Mohave & Milltown Railroad Trails - 7-mile rail-trail on the former Mohave & Milltown Railway grade between Oatman and Mohave Valley, Arizona
Parley’s Trail - 8-mile paved rail-trail under construction in Salt Lake City, Utah
Peavine Trail - 5-mile trail on the former Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway grade in Prescott, Arizona
Poudre Trail - 12-mile rail-trail in Fort Collins, Colorado
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy - Preserves unused rail corridors in the US by transforming them into trails
Rio Grande Trail - 42-mile rail-trail built on the former Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad grade between Aspen and Glenwood Springs, Colorado
River's Edge Trail - 30-mile rail-trail on abandoned portions of the Great Northern and Milwaukee Railroad in Great Falls, Montana
Rollins Pass - Guide to the original 30-mile railroad grade over Rollins Pass in Colorado, replaced by the Moffat Tunnel in 1928
Route of the Hiawatha Rail-Trail - 15-mile trail on the former Milwaukee Road grade between Taft and Pearson, Idaho features seven trestles and nine tunnels, including the 1.7 mile St. Paul Pass (Taft) Tunnel
Santa Fe Rail Trail - 11.5-mile unimproved rail-trail along the Santa Fe Southern Railway between Lamy and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe Rail-Trail - 15-mile trail follows the active Santa Fe Southern Railroad grade between Lamy and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Switzerland Trail - 8.5 miles of former narrow gauge railroad grade suitable for hiking, biking, and driving west of Boulder, Colorado
Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes - 72-mile paved bike path in Idaho follows a former Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way from Mullan, a mountain mining town near the Montana border, to Plummer, a town on the prairie near the Washington border
Weiser River Trail - 84-mile rail-trail on the former Pacific and Idaho Northern (PIN) railroad grade between Weiser and Rubicon, Idaho
Wood River Trail - 30-mile paved rail-trail in Blaine County, Idaho
Wyoming Heritage Trail - 22-mile rail-trail between Shoshoni and Riverton, Wyoming
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