Dan Protess: Peter was the co-founder of the Rails to Trails Conservatory, which is the largest organization advocating for rail-trails in America. He was on the ground floor of the rails-to-trails ...

The Burke-Gilman Trail is about 20 miles, but the road to becoming a Seattle transportation icon is vastly longer. “From Rails to Trails,” a new PBS documentary narrated by Edward Norton premiering ...

WABE and the Trust for Public Land are hosting a Jan. 29 screening of the new PBS documentary “From Rails to Trails.” The documentary, which is narrated by Edward Norton, is about the national ...

In 1963, Illinois naturalist May Watts, inspired by walking paths she’d seen in Britain, wrote a letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune, suggesting converting a stretch of abandoned railroad into ...

Step aboard PBS’s From Rails to Trails. The documentary premiering October 15 tracks the 60-year struggle of one of America’s most unlikely grassroots movements. Narrator Edward Norton plays conductor ...