According to the Friends of the Mount Vernon Bike Trail, the trail was the idea of Ellen Pickering and Barbara Lynch, two locals who tossed around the idea in early 1972, ...

At Mount Vernon High School, on March 14, area cyclists looked at Fairfax County plans to complete a link in the Fairfax County bike rail network, patching together trail bits along Mount Vernon ...

A homeless man was sentenced yesterday to nearly two years in prison for using his heavy mountain bike as a weapon to attack as many as 15 other bicyclists on the Mount Vernon Trail.

The Mt. Vernon Trail is currently blocked near Roosevelt Island after someone tried to drive a piece of large construction equipment over a rickety wooden bridge. The wooden plank bridge carries ...

The report noted that there were 225 reported bike and pedestrian crashes on the trail between 2006 and 2010, many of them at crash hotspots near National Airport and the 14th Street Bridge.

Mt. Vernon street festival and trail day event offers fun run, garage sale, cute dog contest, bike raffle, children's activities, garage sale Families celebrated National Trails Day and their ...

ALSO: A mountain bike skills park is in the works and could be completed over the next two years, Taylor said. The road to the summit is 1.5 miles and open to bikes. Dogs on leashes are permitted.