GREATER HAZLETON RAIL TRAIL:
HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
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Last Updated: August 04, 2025
Length: Greater Hazleton Rail Trail; 4 miles
Difficulty: Easy. Flat, crushed gravel rail trail.
Directions:
To start from the Route 93 parking lot [Western End]; From I-81 take exit 141 to Route 424. Follow to Route 93 and turn left. Take your first right into the parking lot.
The Greater Hazleton Rail Trail follows the rail bed of the old Delaware, Susquehanna & Schuylkill RR (1842) East-West along the Dreck Creek Reservoir, then onto the old N&S line. Future plans call for continuing the trail to the historic town of Eckley. This trail is also part of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor . For more information visit; GREATER HAZLETON RAIL TRAIL .
Starting from the Route 93 parking lot [Western End]; Picnic tables, Map Board and an informational board located here. The 0 Mileage Marker starts here and are located every mile along with an elevation marker. The crushed gravel Greater Hazleton Rail Trail travels North, briefly, past exercise stations, an environmental garden and informational posts. After a sharp turn you head East, into a forest with an under story of Low Bush Blueberry and Mt Laurel. Very scenic. Cross Stockton Mt Rd at 0.9 miles. Here the trail follows a hard packed gravel road (shared by the Reservoir) until you come to an overlook of the Dreck Creek Reservoir & Dam where you find a picnic table and bench at 1.9 miles. Continuing down a short hill the trail passes by a second dam where it then converts back to stone-dust at 2.6 miles. Pass at gate after 3.9 miles and you'll come to Beryllium/Ashmore Rd, a decaying, old paved road.
I haven't checked this next section. Travel left, West, along this road for 0.1 miles and you'll re-join the trail on your right. The trail continues North, crossing a causeway through wetlands, then crossing a bridge over some RR tracks. Here the trail turns East briefly, before turning North. It looks like you cross over another bridge over the Atlantic Carbon reclamation project. It ends at Hazelbrook Rd after 5.8 miles.
Note; A study is underway in 2025, about utilizing an old railroad line as a possible connection between Hazleton and Weatherly, to the Southeast.
Note; In Weatherly, construction is underway on Phase 1 of the Weatherly Borough-Delaware & Lehigh Trail connection, which will construct a trail from the Weatherly Area Museum in Weatherly South, 1 mile to the confluence of the Hazle, Quakake & Black Creeks, where a bridge will cross Quakake Creek. Phase 2 will continue the trail East, another 4 miles, along Black Creek, before it scales up the mountain and follows through to the D&L Trail; Lehigh Gap & Gorge; Jim Thorpe-White Haven Section at Penn Haven Junction.
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