Four Mile Run Trail

The Four Mile Run Trail is a 7-mile long, paved shared use path in Arlington County and Falls Church.

When he was snowed in at New York's LaGuardia Airport shortly after being elected he used the time, and a AAA road map of Arlington, to sketch out a trail system along Four Mile Run.

[5] He saw it as part of a network of trails - including those along Lubber Run, Long Branch and from the Claremont School - stretching from Falls Church to Route 1 on land the county already controlled.

The trail could not connect to the George Washington Parkway because the railroad trestle then over Four Mile Run near Potomac yard left no room between the supports.

In 1980, as part of the construction of seven bridges across Four Mile Run - for Route 1, the Potomac Yard railroad, the main rail line and the George Washington Parkway - the Army Corps of Engineers built a section of the Four Mile Run Trail beneath the bridges from Route 1 to the Mount Vernon Trail.