Starting at the trailhead in Garrett, you will ride
a four mile section of the Great Allegheny Passage, ending in your
dramatic trip across an antique train trestle, 2,000 feet long and
100 feet high. As you look down from the bridge, you will see farm
fields, passing trains, and the Casselman River Valley below.
This flat, easy ride passes through old maple forests
and open pastures with grazing dairy cattle. The Casselman River weaves
in and out of view while the giant windmills of the Green Mountain
Wind Farm appear and vanish just as suddenly.
From the far side of the bridge, looking westward, the
biker is faced with 100 miles of continuous bike trail all the way
to Pittsburgh, much of it through forests like the one to the right.
With a river always by your side, and only a rare chance to encounter
an automobile, this is some of the finest nature biking to be found
in the world.