>>1035512It used to be much more wild, but development really took it's toll. During the uninhibited growth and suburbanization of DC the 60's and 70's, it was thought that the trail was going to be straight up paved over. The trail conservancy and some other groups banded together and bought up bits of woods in VA, WV and PA and constructed the Tuscarora Trail as a sort of "plan B" for when the original trail was no longer wild.
If you wanted to, you could do that hike instead and be in a much more wild area. One of the big complaints about the Tuscarora is that parts of it are so infrequently traveled, people have trouble following the trail.
