Upper Tampa Bay Trail
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The Upper Tampa Bay Trail is a paved multi-use, non-motorized, rail trail
located in northwest Hillsborough County, Florida
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The trail currently starts at Old Memorial Highway and heads north along the Channel A canal. It crosses underneath both a Linebaugh Avenue bridge and CSX railroad tracks then wraps around the old Northwest Transfer Station landfill. It then follows an abandoned railroad corridor north along the Veterans Expressway. The trail ends at Peterson Road Park, but future plans extend the trail to the southern terminus of the Suncoast Trail on Lutz-Lake Fern Road.
Rail trail
A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway easement into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding. The characteristics of former tracks—flat, long, frequently running through historical areas—are appealing for various development. The term sometimes also...
located in northwest Hillsborough County, Florida
Hillsborough County, Florida
As of the census of 2000, there were 998,948 people, 391,357 households, and 255,164 families residing in the county. The population density was 951 people per square mile . There were 425,962 housing units at an average density of 405 per square mile...
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The trail currently starts at Old Memorial Highway and heads north along the Channel A canal. It crosses underneath both a Linebaugh Avenue bridge and CSX railroad tracks then wraps around the old Northwest Transfer Station landfill. It then follows an abandoned railroad corridor north along the Veterans Expressway. The trail ends at Peterson Road Park, but future plans extend the trail to the southern terminus of the Suncoast Trail on Lutz-Lake Fern Road.