Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Canal in Washington, D.C., and Maryland
Length: Length listed as 184.5 miles in the Wikipedia list this trail is drawn from.
From the Wikipedia article
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the Grand Old Ditch, operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Cumberland, Maryland. It replaced the Patowmack Canal, which shut down completely in 1828, and could operate during months in which the water level was too low for the former canal. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains.
Coordinates
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Source
This page is built from Wikipedia article “Chesapeake and Ohio Canal”. Source record: wikipedia_trails#25. Wikipedia data fetched 2026-10-03. Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Listed in: List of long-distance trails in the United States.