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National Recreation Trails
2010 Photo Contest

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GALLERY 6 - NRT Photo Contest entries

American Trails presents the annual contest for photographs of designated National Recreation Trails across America. In celebration of these great trails we are presenting awards in several categories to highlight the diversity of NRTs, from backcountry trails to urban greenways. We thank the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and Federal Highway Administration for their enthusiastic support.

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The Great Allegheny Passage National Recreation Trail joins the C&O Canal Towpath in Cumberland, MD at the statue of the mule and mule driver; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

On the Great Allegheny Passage: The bridges were constructed on the ground near the tracks, and early one morning the railroad closed the line for a couple of hours so the bridges could be placed; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

The Great Allegheny Passage trail connection from McKeesport to Pittsburgh PA requires two crossings of the active railroad line; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

The bridges were constructed on the ground near the tracks, and early one morning the railroad closed the line for a couple of hours so the bridges could be placed; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

On a cross-country ski trip in Ohiopyle along the Youghiogheny River Trail; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

Winter offers cross-country skiing on the trail; here skier is crossing the Ohiopyle Bridge; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

The Youghiogheny River Trail is part of the Great Allegheny Passage, which is also a National Recreational Trail; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

Volunteers working at Valley Brook, west of US 19 in Pennsylvania; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

Winter weather brings down trees on the trail. In the spring, volunteers form work parties to clear the trail again; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

New stairs bridge the gap: the Montour Trail, otherwise continuous for many miles in both directions, had been interrupted at this intersection by a missing bridge. The trail continued to both ends of the demolished bridge, but the bridge is 15 feet above the road; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

"Trail travelers had been forced to detour for a half mile along busy PA 50. An all-volunteer project of the trail group reduced the hazards for trail users by installing a stairway from the old bridge down to the side of the road. The slope of the stairs and a wheel trough provide easy passage for bicyclists; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

In the 1870s oil producers learned to power numerous pumps with a single engine by driving an eccentric gear that pulled and pushed on rods strung out to the wells; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

This former power house once operated 14 wells on the river bank along what is now the Samuel Justus rail trail; photo copyright © 2010 by Mary Shaw

Brooke Beazley and Glenn Myers of the Cheaha Trail Riders installing traffic counters on one of the OHV trails in Minooka Park near Jemison, AL; photo by Nancy Geehan

Minooka Park National Recreation Trail System Campground near Jemison, AL; photo by Gerald Arrington

Statues of Marietta Johnson and her students on the Eastern Shore National Recreation Trail, Fairhope, AL; photo by Rob Grant

Gulf Oak Ridge on the Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail in Orange Beach, AL; photo by Nicole Woerner

Gulf Oak Ridge on the Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail in Orange Beach, AL; photo by Nicole Woerner

Gulf Oak Ridge on the Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail in Orange Beach, AL; photo by Nicole Woerner

Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail in Orange Beach, AL; photo by Nicole Woerner

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