This presentation is predominantly a slide show, since I was just starting to get a handle on documenting trails for video. This trail originally ran along the Allegheny River for about 6.3 miles from the Kennerdell Bridge to Fishermans Cove. I made six different trips to the Kennerdell Tract to document it before the removed section was completely overgrown. Other changes have since been made. The video is sequenced not by the dates of my various visits but by the trail sections as one would traverse them, south to north.
The middle section - about 2.2 miles - has been discontinued - that is to say, the DCNR no longer maintains it. I posted their response to my email question in the video and I will re-post it below. One thing that I noticed about it was that in some places it was so close to the river that it would have been under water when the river was high due to heavy rain or snowmelt.
Beyond that, they redesignated the next .7 mile, along with the Ho-Ya-Neh trail as part of the Fishermans Cove Trail, rendering a loop. The remainder of the old River Trail then continued past a right-of-way for another .7 mile to the community of Fishermans Cove, unmarked on the new map. It was unnamed on the 2003 map but represented as a dashed line and there was a River Trail sign at the very end. I don't know if it's still there.
Many others were using the discontinued section regardless of the signage, and in fact there are videos on other channels unabashedly showing this.
Map/Brochure:
elibrary.dcnr....
DCNR email "ask a forester":
"That trail section had been closed a long time ago and removed from the map. I believe the issues were due to erosion, ecology, and safety. Thank-you for the pictures of the signs, I will make sure we remove them. They should not be out there. You can certainly hike in that area if you would like, we are no longer maintaining it as a trail. I hope this answers your question, let me know if there is anything else I can help you with."
Cameras
Kodak PixPro FZ152
Canon PowerShot SX540 HS
13 сен 2024
