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Welcome to the community map for the Shenandoah Rail Trail!
This is a space for you to share your thoughts, ideas, and concerns surrounding the planned Shenandoah Rail Trail. We identified 4 key themes and now we want to hear from you!
Use the map to identify places in and around the Rail Trail that are important to you. Click to pick up an icon of one of the 4 key themes related to your comment from the sidebar menu. Click again to pin your icon on the map where it belongs and share your thoughts with us.
Special Places: Use the 
Star to identify places near the trail that are special to you and others may be interested in visting.
Connections: Use the 
Bridge to identify possible connections to and from the Rail Trail such as parking and trail head locations.
Ideas: Use the 
Light Bulb to identify general ideas for the Rail Trail.
Special Considerations: Use the 
Exclamation Point to identify where there might be situations requiring extra attention to make sure the trail is a good neighbor.
Each time you place a pin, add a comment to share what you are thinking. You can add as many pins as you want.
When you click “Post” your icon and comment will be added to the map. You can move 
and/or delete 
your comments until you close the map. Please be respectful, as everyone can see the comments you share.
Most importantly, please share this map with family and friends who care about the Shenandoah Rail Trail!
If the map is difficult to use or incompatible with your screen reader, please leave a message at 540-908-3914, and a member of our planning team will contact you.
About the Plan
The Shenandoah Rail Trail will convert an unused single-track railroad corridor between Broadway and Front Royal into a multi-use, almost 50-mile trail reconnecting communities, businesses, schools and many local cultural and historical resources.
The rail corridor, once a community and economic hub of towns from Broadway to Front Royal, has not seen trains as far back as 1989. The tracks are now overgrown and, in some cases, completely unusable.
Communities along the route are working together to reclaim the corridor as a trail for walking, jogging, cycling and more. And now, we need your input to build the best trail for our region.
A Shenandoah Rail Trail will:
CONNECT: Up and down the route, the trail connects students to school, employees to work, customers to shops, diners to restaurants and community members to parks, rivers and historic sites.
PROVIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERYONE: In the Valley, we are surrounded by opportunities to enjoy the outdoors, but many of the trails and paths are remote and, by the nature of the terrain, suited for advanced trail users. Our rail trail is flat, primarily rural and scenic, and easily accessed from many towns and neighborhoods. It will be a safe and easy way to get outside to walk, run or roll with family members of all ages and abilities.
TRANSFORM: The addition of a trail to our first-rate local amenities will attract companies that seek to locate in a place that offers a high quality of life to the folks they employ. This means the potential for new job opportunities across many sectors. And, visitors to the trail will provide economic opportunities for entrepreneurship and for communities to enjoy thriving local businesses in towns.
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