The Murrysville Trail Alliance
Building trails to strengthen our community

The Murrysville Trail Alliance is a group of people working to expand opportunities for Murrysville trail-based recreation. Please explore our site to discover trails in and around Murrysville and learn about the MTA's activities. If you are interested in trails or trail-based recreation in and around Murrysville, please join us for a meeting or activity! If you like, you may also email asking to be added to our mailing list.

MTA Meetings

The MTA meets at 7 pm on the third Tuesday
of each month, at the East Suburban
Unitarian Universalist Church
at 4326 Sardis Road (across from Mamont Road).
Anyone interested is welcome to participate
in any MTA meetings or activities.
Please join us!

New Murrysville
Recreation and Parks Plan

On 9/7/11 Council of the Municipality of Murrysville
adopted a new Comprehensive
Recreation and Parks Plan.
The MTA Archives include links to this Plan
and much other online documentation.

Wish List of Trail Books

A wealth of information about trails and trail building
is available through the Murrysville Community Library,
either from the Library's own collection or
from other libraries in Westmoreland County via
the Polaris system. In addition, the MTA has developed a
"Wish List" to expand the Library's collection of trail books:

2011/2012 Allegheny Trail Alliance TrailBook
(about the Great Allegheny Passage and the C & O Canal Towpath); available for $10 from www.GAPtrail.org

The Laurel Highlands: A Hiking Guide;
available for $8.95 from www.alleghenysc.org

Hiker's Guide to the Laurel Highlands Trail;
available for $7.00 from www.alleghenysc.org

Please contact the MTA if you might like to sponsor
purchase of one of these books or know of other worthwhile
trail books (if regional, addressing southwestern PA).

A Pittsburgh Hiking Meetup group hosts several hikes in our area, including hikes in Duff Park. Join the Pittsburgh Hiking Meetup group at www.meetup.com to obtain current information about their hikes.

Westmoreland Conservancy hikes and excursions are listed at www.westmorelandconservancy.org/Events.htm.

The Botanical Society of Western Pennsylvania hosts many events and field trips throughout western Pennsylvania, as shown at http://www.botsocwpa.org/calendar.php.

The Sierra Club Allegheny Group lists several hikes in southwestern PA on an "Upcoming Events" calendar at http://www.alleghenysc.org/index.php.

The Explorers Club of Pittsburgh includes backpacking, cycling, and other outdoor activities in southwestern PA under Events at http://www.pittecp.org/index.asp.

Venture Outdoors hosts many southwestern PA outdoor events and activities, shown at http://www.ventureoutdoors.org.

Keystone Trails Association provides much information about trails and recreational trail use throughout PA at http://www.kta-hike.org.

American Trails provides much information about trails and recreational trail use throughout the U.S., including in Pennsylvania, at http://americantrails.org.