Welcome to the Greenway Corridor! Lake Metroparks' bike path measures 4.8 miles long, and ranges in elevation from 660 feet in Painesville to 895 feet in Concord Township. Bike trail hours are 6am-11pm, and there are multiple parking places along the trail.
The Greenway Corridor's history, according to the Lake Metroparks Website:
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, founded in 1827, owns a prominent place in the cultural and economic history of the United States and that of Lake County. Countless memorable events mark the progress and succession of the railroad during its 160-year span of operation. Original tracks linking the nation's rail system to Lake Erie were laid in Lake County in 1870 and acquired by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the 1890s. The railroad provided freight service in and out of Painesville, moving some five million tons of coal and iron ore annually.
Today, Lake Metroparks uses the same route that our forefathers founded so many years ago as the Greenway Corridor. Sounds of bicycle wheels and happy walkers replace train whistles and the clattering of tracks as one travels on the 4.8-mile paved trail.