Horse Shoe Trail

Horse Shoe Trail

The Horse-Shoe Trail is a 140-mile (230 km) trail that runs from the western edge of Valley Forge National Historical Park westward toward Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It ends about 15 miles northeast of Harrisburg at the Appalachian Trail.

The trail was developed for equestrian and pedestrian use, according to the Horse-Shoe Trail Club guide (see below), hence the name (horse + shoe).

Read more about Horse Shoe Trail:  Trail Junctions, Minor Connecting Trails, Points of Interest, Horse-Shoe Trail Club

Famous quotes containing the words horse, shoe and/or trail:

    “Body my house
    my horse my hound
    what will I do
    when you are fallen”
    —May Swenson (1919–1995)

    “There was an old woman and she lived in a shoe,
    She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do.
    She crumm’d ‘em some porridge without any bread
    And she borrowed a beetle, and she knocked ‘em all on the head.
    Then out went the old woman to bespeak ‘em a coffin
    And when she came back she found’ em all a-loffing.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (l. 1–6)

    “And Change with hurried hand has swept these scenes:
    The woods have fallen, across the meadow-lot
    The hunter’s trail and trap-path is forgot,
    And fire has drunk the swamps of evergreens;
    Yet for a moment let my fancy plant
    These autumn hills again: the wild dove’s haunt,
    The wild deer’s walk: in golden umbrage shut,”
    —Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821–1873)