Celebrate America 250 Mile Challenge

Join FREEWALKERS in celebrating America's Semiqincentennial. Walk 250 miles this year in honor of the 250th anniversary of Independence. You can amass those miles at any of our FW events or you may walk on your own. As this is a new challenge, these are the particulars:

• Attend one FW event in person (unless you do not live in the DC/Philly/NYC areas)
• One of your walks should have a Revolutionary War theme or location (e.g. Jockey Hollow, Valley Forge, Monmouth Battlefield)
• One walk should be the week of the 4th of July
• If walking on your own, distance should be at least 3 miles
• Please complete the Eventbrite registration, this will facilitate communication with participants throughout the year
• We got a late start on this, so yes you can retroactively include miles already walked beginning January 1, 2026
• When you have completed 250, notify us and we will see that you get a 250 FW commemorative swag

Coordinator: Ed Purcell

Partners:

The East Coast Greenway Alliance is a non-profit organization developing a public multi-use 3,000 mile trail from Canada to Key West through New Jersey and New York. Donations and memberships help make this dream trail a reality.

Circuit Trails is 800 miles of interconnected trails in Greater Philadelphia in the making, already one of America's largest trail networks. Once connected, the Circuit Trails will be one of the nation's premier urban trail networks and it will provide multiple benefits to neighborhoods, communities and the region as a whole.

The 9/11 National Memorial Trail is a network of over 1,300 miles of trails connecting New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in tribute to the heroes who perished on September 11, 2001, and the heroes who, in response, answered the call for their country.

The FreeWalkers are again offering the Cross-Jersey Walking Challenge, with a goal of walking the 100 miles of the East Coast Greenway across the entire state at any time during the year. This walk is part of the ECG trail from Trenton to New York City.

More about FreeWalkers:

Our calendar of walks and hikes | About FreeWalkers | Walker stories | Walking tips

New Jersey walks | Pennsylvania walks | New York City walks

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