The Pine Creek Rail Trail is a rail trail in the Appalachian Mountains of north-central Pennsylvania.
The trail begins just north of Wellsboro, runs south through Pine Creek Gorge (also known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania), and ends in Jersey Shore. A 2001 article in USA Today named the 65-mile (105 km) long trail one of "10 great places to take a bike tour" in the world.
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