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12 D&H Rail-Trail

Counties

Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne

Endpoints

Morse Ave., 1 block northwest of N. Main St./PA 171/Lackawanna River Heritage Trail (Simpson), to 0.5 mile north of Riverview Dr. and Damascus Road (Susquehanna)

Mileage

38.0

Type

Rail-Trail

Roughness Index

2–3

Surface

Crushed Stone, Cinder

The 38-mile D&H Rail-Trail traces the former corridor of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, a line that primarily carried anthracite coal out of the Lackawanna Valley in the second half of the 19th century. The D&H Railway corridor’s early claim to fame: it was on its predecessor—the D&H Gravity Line—that the first steam locomotive in America, the Stourbridge Lion, made its one and only run in August 1829.

A good starting point at the southern terminus is the Morse Avenue trailhead, west of the Lackawanna River. Here the trail connects seamlessly with the 32.4-mile Lackawanna River Heritage Trail, which leads south to Taylor and north along a shared corridor with the D&H Rail-Trail for 10 miles to Stillwater Dam in Clifford.