Established 1995 Trail difficulty Wheelchair accessible Length 20,921 m | Grade flat railroad grades Months 12 | |
Location Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio Use hiking, bicycling and in-line skating Trailheads Bowling Green, Portage, Rudolph, North Balti | ||
Slippery elm trail
The Slippery Elm Trail is a rail to trail conversion in Wood County, Ohio that runs 13 miles from Bowling Green, through Portage and Rudolph, to North Baltimore, Ohio.
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History
The Bowling Green Railroad Company was founded in 1874. It functioned as a spur line to link Bowling Green to the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway (C.H. & D.) that ran northwest of Bowling Green, through Tontogany, Ohio. In 1987, the CH&D railroad purchased enough stock to control the Bowling Green line. In 1890, the Bowling Green Railroad Company absorbed the portion of railroad that makes today's trail, which was then called the Toledo, Findlay and Springfield Railroad. The line was later purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1917, and operated as B&O until 1978.
The Wood County Parks District opened the rail trail in 1995.
Location
The trail is maintained by the Wood County Parks District, and the routing is per the following table: