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Fred from Baltimore on 6/16/2026 2:35:19 PM:
I want to recommend Enterprise Car Rental as an option if you want to get yourself and your bikes to the GAP near PGH. Good locations are:
--Homestead. This is right near the trail, so you can leave your vehicle and ride away.
--Belle Vernon, PA. 7 min by car from Cedar Creek Campground.
--Uniontown, PA. 15 min by car from the start of the Sheepskin Trail in Dunbar (by Dunbar Historical Society), which connects to the GAP near Connellsville.
Enterprise boasts that they will pick you up or drop you off. Be sure to phone ahead of time to be sure they can and what time you should arrive so that someone is there to drive you. We drove to Uniontown and Josh drove us to the Sheepskin Trail. Learning about these (and other) options gave us much more flexibility.
I would rather take a train to Connellsville, but the scheduled arrival is ~10 pm, and it is often 2 or more hours late.
 
Rivnuts from Homestead,PA on 6/16/2026 5:51:44 PM:
Fred: Did you take in the small history museum in Dunbar? They have a blue, glass carved sculpture inside that has a very interesting history. Google it. Quite interesting and in such a small, old town with its own history itself.
 
Fred from Baltimore on 6/19/2026 11:24:36 AM:
Thank you for the suggestion. It was closed when we started out. No one there except the black snack sunning by the bench.
 
Rivnuts from Homestead,PA on 6/19/2026 12:23:36 PM:
You may need to call ahead so one of the docents can/will be there, it’s not heavily visited. ????
 
John W. from Pittsburgh, PA on 7/14/2026 8:11:58 PM:
I once rented a van from a rental place near my house in Pittsburgh and ended at Dulles Airport. From there I rode my bike on the W&OD to Arlington and then connected to the C&O for the ride back. I’m sure National Airport could accommodate car rental drop offs also.

John
 
Anonymous on 7/15/2026 12:09:14 PM:
Indeed one-way rentals (in both directions) are an option especially if there are multiple riders to share the cost and vans/trucks are available to transport your bikes, assuming you are not renting bikes. The train offers less flexibility, more time and, possibly, more frustration as its on-time performance seems to be deteriorating particularly with the merger with the Floridian route.
 
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