Within the city limits of Piqua, this trail is a straight path on an old railroad bed featuring a bridge over the Great Miami River. To the east and west of Piqua, the route is on-road, through agricultural countryside.
The overall route is mostly on-road riding, sharing the road with motor traffic. These on-road portions are not advised for pedestrians. The trail portion of the Ohio-to-Indiana Trail runs through Piqua, Ohio and provides access to the Miami Valley Centre Mall and a 6.7-mile loop that travels along the Great Miami River and the city's hydraulic canal system, which connects three ponds and lakes, and provides wonderful scenery. The trail crosses the Great Miami River Trail at Lock Nine Park right in town. Suggested road routes connect across Miami County from east to west, providing access to Darke and Champaign Counties. Covington, Bradford, Gettysburg, and Greenville, Ohio can be reached on these alternating trail and road routes, as well as the Greenville Falls State Nature Preserve.
Connections to The Tecumseh Trail in Darke County are envisioned to bring this route to Union City, Ohio, which straddles the Ohio-Indiana border.
The Tecumseh Trail offers a pleasant route, partially on the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Saint Louis freight mainline. The rail route was also once used for Lincoln's funeral train in 1865. The trail provides a mixed biking experience with about half the trail dedicated trail and the other half share-the-road. The initial paved portion of the trail runs from downtown Gettysburg east nearly 2 miles to North Harrison-Bradford Road, which you can continue east on as an on-road bike route to Bradford and the border between Darke and Miami counties.
From downtown Gettysburg, you can follow the trail west all the way into Greenville, connecting with the Greenville Creek segment at the Bish Discovery Center on Ohio Street (bike station and water available). With that, Darke County Parks now provides a trail route from Bradford, Miami County to Greenville in Darke County, nearly 15 miles. One day, the trail is hoped to continue west from Greenville to Union City. From Union City, the trail could cross the border to connect with Indiana's 62-mile Cardinal Greenway.
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