The Pennsylvania Environmental Council’s Public Lands Ride seeks to celebrate and showcase the wealth of public parks and forests across the Commonwealth, bringing awareness to public lands as an invaluable resource for us to protect and enjoy.
In 2019, PEC hosted the inaugural Public Lands Ride at Black Moshannon State Park, bringing together participants from Pennsylvania and beyond for a day of exploring gravel roads and mixed surface trails.
In 2020, a shift to a “virtual” version provided an opportunity to expand the lens of focus and provide mapped routes in a variety of different forests across the central region of the state, focusing on areas covered by our partner Purple Lizard Maps. Those six routes provided incentive and a challenge to participants to explore new places and push their physical limits if they so desired.
This year, we are excited to promote both an in-person event returning to Black Moshannon State Park on October 2, 2021, and the release of six new routes in different state forests to be ridden anytime.