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              Maryland: Te Art of Rail-Trails
            
            
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              With several new rail-trails and other
            
            
              pathways weaving through Houston’s
            
            
              neighborhoods, come explore a city in
            
            
              transformation—and see why “Houston
            
            
              Is On A Roll.”
            
            
              By Mark Cheater
            
            
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              Eye On: Pennsylvania
            
            
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              Trail Tales: Is your whole family into
            
            
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              Hawaii, Idaho, New Mexico and New York
            
            
            
            
            
              Maine’s newest and longest rail-trail
            
            
              carves its way 85 miles along the coast
            
            
              toward Canada, drawing a furry of
            
            
              winter users to the small towns and
            
            
              snow-packed reaches of the state.
            
            
              By Seth Levy
            
            
            
            
            
              Te former fve-term mayor of Columbia,
            
            
              Mo., refects on his long career as a trails
            
            
              and bicycling activist, and the many lessons
            
            
              in leadership he learned along the way.
            
            
              By Mike Hendricks
            
            
            
            
            
              With a planned length of 13,500
            
            
              miles, the Trans Canada Trail has
            
            
              captivated a nation and drawn countless
            
            
              communities and planners together for
            
            
              the momentous project.
            
            
              By Gerry Donohue
            
            
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              From Kentucky to Iowa to New York,
            
            
              a look at historical railroad bridges and
            
            
              other innovative crossings over rivers
            
            
              and state borders.
            
            
              By Abby Laub
            
            
              On the cover:
            
            
              Down East Sunrise Trail, Maine.
            
            
              Photo by Michael Eudenbach/Aurora Select
            
            
              Inset:
            
            
              The MKT/SP trail in Houston.
            
            
              Photo by Mark Cheater
            
            
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