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Sandcastle-Keystone Metals completed in 2013.

Homestead

allegheny | Homestead, PA Mile 139

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The Waterfront and surrounding communities are reinventing their economy around retail, entertainment and tourism. The Waterfront has shopping, dining, entertainment, a residential district, Sandcastle Waterpark, and three hotels.

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This website is an ongoing effort to document the official history of building the Great Allegheny Passage by those who built it – with factual content, personal experiences and great images of  the ‘Building the Great Allegheny Passage.’  Please click the “Contact Us” button to send us something you would like to share or to request information.

“The Passage is linear; the story of its building is not.”   – Linda McKenna Boxx, June 2020.

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The Great Allegheny Passage ® (GAP) rail-trail offers 150 miles of hiking and biking from Cumberland MD to Pittsburgh PA.

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