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901 STATEWIDE GREENWAY Schuylkill SCHUYLKILL Haven MILEAGE TABULATION LVRT TRAIL GAP 61 COUNTY Cressona Schuylkill River Trail - LENGTHCOUNTY TOTAL COUNTY TABULATION Landingville to Pottsville A On Road Gap - Alignment TBD 5.8 On road connection to 10.8 LANCASTER LENGTHFEASIBILITYACQUISITIONFINAL DESIGNCONSTRUCTION Schuylkill B Conewago Recreation Trail 5.0 6 Chestnut Street to 25th Street 1.3 2019 2020 Schuylkill River Trail ** Port Clinton C Lebanon Valley Rail-Trail 15.0 7 25th Street to Long Lane 1.7 2018 River 443 D LVRT Gap Sections 6,7,8,9,10 10.5 8 Long Lane to Bunker Hill Road 2.8 TBD TBD TBD 183 E Swatara State Park Trail 7.3 43.2 LEBANON 9 Bunker Hill Road to Route 22 1.7 * F Stony Creek Trail 10.4 10 Route 22 to Lickdale 3.0 2018 2019 2020 J H 81 125 G Swatara State Park Trail 2.8 Total Gap Mileage 10.5 895 Pine Grove On Road Gap - Old Forge Road G H 1.8 5.6 SCHUYLKILL * Construction of 1.2 miles (Phase 9A) is complete. The J Stony Creek Trail 1.0 remaining sections Phase 9B (0.2 miles) and Phase 9C (0.3 miles) are scheduled for construction in 2018/2019. 78 K Stony Creek Trail 8.6 15.5 DAUPHIN Phase 6 consists of the following phases: L On Road Gap - Stony Creek Rd 6.9 ** Phase 6A - Wengert Pocket Park Total Greenway Mileage 75.1 Phase 6B - LVRT along Chestnut Street 501 nd Phase 6C - LVRT along 22 Street E Phase 6D - LVRT thru or around the Lebanon Valley Mall Swatara State Park TABULATION LEGEND Valley Existing Shared Use Trail F Lickdale 78 Fort Indiantown BERKS Proposed On Road Section Gap 10 COUNTY LVRT Gaps K Stony L LEBANON Jonestown 443 9 COUNTY 225 Myerstown 322 934 8 81 422 Dauphin 22 72 Capital Area Fort Hunter Lebanon Greenbelt Trail 7 322 Annville 501 897 422 6 39 Schaefferstown 81 DAUPHIN 419 Harrisburg 897 COUNTY 322 Cornwall 83 CUMBERLAND 322 Hershey C Mt Gretna 322 COUNTY 230 283 581 76 76 72 Susquehanna REGIONALLY SIGNIFICANT 283 4 3 2 1 0 4 MILES 83 TRAIL NETWORK B Elizabethtown NORTHWEST LANCASTER COUNTY RIVER TRAIL TO YORK River LANCASTER COUNTY COUNTY SCHUYLKILL RIVER TRAIL A 230 Prepared For: Northwest Lancaster Prepared By: County River Trail AUGUST 2018.

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