Navigation Tool Steers Visitors to Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
Easton, PA (Vocus) April 30, 2008 -- The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, a 165-mile thread through a five-county region in eastern Pennsylvania (http://www.delawareandlehigh.org/delaware-lehigh-trail.asp), launches a new online navigation tool to bridge together the people, places and experience of the Delaware, Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys.
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor's backbone is the D&L Trail. The trail, which travels through three distinct regions, Southern (Bucks County), Central (Lehigh & Northampton counties) and Northern (Luzerne & Carbon Counties), follows the 165-mile route that anthracite coal took from mine to market (http://www.delawareandlehigh.org/story.asp?storyid=3). A striking landscape rich in natural resources and outdoor recreation, the D&L Trail passes through charming towns and travels along remnants of the Lehigh and Delaware Canals.
Using a dynamic navigation and mapping tool, The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor has connected the three regions as the path Where America was Built?. The online tool is specifically designed to enable users to zoom in on specific locations, learn trail status, identify regional sites and events, find points of interest and plan a visit to the region.
In addition to serving as an information hub, the website allows visitors to navigate based upon a desired path, according to region, specific town, or a recreational area of interest. The Your Trip feature (http://www.delawareandlehigh.org/yourtrip.asp), allows visitors to plan their itinerary with driving directions from a starting point, to each destination and back to the starting point.
Connected only by a trail that winds through northern mountains and along the banks of the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers through northeast Pennsylvania, the region is more than a series of waterways, paths and quaint towns, it's a journey through history. Now visitors can utilize www.delawareandlehigh.org to navigate and discover the ingenuity, beauty and landscape powerful enough to fuel America's Industrial Revolution.
The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor is a partnership of private groups and interested citizens, county and municipal governments, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Park Service to conserve cultural and natural resources in the five-county region of Pennsylvania that traverses the historic Delaware and Lehigh canals. Since the Delaware & Lehigh's designation by Congress in 1988, it has been a mission to restore historic places, conserve green space for public use and preserve and interpret heritage to enhance life for generations to come.
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