The Red Lion Mile, Red Lion, Pennsylvania

What is the Red Lion Mile?

Some of you are saying, “I know.? It is a lion that is red and is a mile long.”

Well, that is not the correct answer.? What is the Red Lion Mile?? It is a rail trail in the town of Red Lion in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

Some of you are saying, “Wow.? I did not know that.? I bet the town got the name because a red lion was once here.”

Even though the ‘red lion’ is the symbol of the town, it is not named after an actual lion.? It is named after a pub when it was settled in 1852 called the Red Lion Tavern, and that tavern is still in business today.

Today, the town of Red Lion, Pennsylvania is not served by the railroad, but it was once a major railroad town on the York and Peach Bottom Railroad and later the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad.? (It was commonly referred to as the ‘Ma and Pa Railroad’.”)? The town was a place of industry to include furniture and cigars.? As you walk along the rail trail, you will see some of the old factory structures.? The remaining structures have been converted into housing or businesses.? The old train station also remains, and it is the home of the Red Lion Historical Society.

The Red Lion Mile mainly runs west from the old train station located on Pennsylvania Route 24, and it is mostly paved.? Parking is available along the trail.? You can learn more about the town at https://redlionareahistoricalsociety.org/area-history/red-lion/red-lion-history/.

The Red Lion Mile: you may not see any red lions, but you will see the places that was once seen by those who once ran the trains through the town.