Moonville Rail Trail

Turn right onto Wheelabout Road.

Moonville rail trail. Moonville Rail Trail McArthur OH November 2021. This scenic ride takes you to the area where the old town of Moonville used to be. Moonville Rail-Trail is known to be the former railroad right-of-way of the BO Baltimore Ohio Railroad but it is actually the railroad grade of the oldest railway in our area the Marietta-Cincinnati Railroad established in 1853.

The organization aims to preserve local history and the environment provide educational opportunities and assist the surrounding communities in promoting education tourism and economic development. The Rail Trail at Moonville. It is largely embedded in the Zaleski State Forest and passes close to Lake Hope State ParkThe trail is named after the Moonville Tunnel through which it passes.

The rail trail is growing and evolving. Please note that updates 1 - Trestle is destroyed here. The Moonville Rail-Trail is a sixteen-mile 25 kilometer rail-trail in southeast Ohio located in Vinton and Athens Counties.

From OH-5032 from Athens. Volunteers are making great efforts to add bridges where trestles have been destroyed and maintain the walkway for the rail trail. It is open to horses hikers and bicyclists but is still under development with several bridges yet to be replaced.

6405 likes 23 talking about this 111 were here. The Moonville Rail Trail Association a local nonprofit organization was established in April 2001 with the purpose of building and maintaining a rail trail freely open to the public. The Moonville Rail Trail is a work-in-progress 16-mile trail.

The Moonville Rail Trail Association was established in April of 2001 in order to build and. The trail is primarily used for hiking camping nature trips and backpacking. Exploring this trail hikers will experience two historic tunnels as well as 6 bridges and counting all of which will provide a unique perspective of the landscape and its history.