Yesterday morning when I woke up and saw the beautiful snow on the ground I decided to take a walk on one of my favorite places of natural beauty, the Roanoke Canal Trail.
With four days left to vote, the Roanoke Canal Trail is way ahead in the North Carolina Great Places Greenway Division contest..
I don't talk about this much because I'm not sure where it will lead.
The chance to put the Roanoke Canal Trail on a wider map is under way.
New research is beginning to show the possible links the Roanoke Canal played in the Underground Railroad.
Ongoing research is uncovering the Roanoke Canal Trail's history in the underground railroad, a secret network through which slaves sought their freedom.
Halifax County is set to become a corridor for the migrating monarch butterfly, of which four generations make a trek from Mexico to Canada, the fourth generation migrating back to Mexico to renew the cycle.
As a Boy Scout, Randall Spence is well familiar with the Roanoke Canal Trail.
A stone marker is placed some 25 feet away from a kiosk on the Roanoke Canal Trail telling the brief story of Lieutenant Fletcher Thomas Bender, a decorated Air Force pilot who crashed his F-80 jet in 1949.
Mark Perkins of Roanoke Valley Auto Works used 190 feet of cable to pull a Jeep that slipped off the Canal Trail Saturday up at least a 30-feet incline of bramble, and spare the historic trail from further damage.
