Just to add one more, the Olympic Discovery Trail - on the Olympic peninsula in WA state - is ~140 miles long. It runs from Port Townsend on the east end (basically at the point where ship traffic enters Puget Sound) west to La Push on the Pacific coast. I don't think it is entirely complete nor do I know how much of it is actually 'rails to trails'. Certainly from Port Townsend to Port Angeles (~60 miles as the rail car flies) it's mainly the old Milwaukee Road RoW (and very briefly, the attempted successor, Seattle and North Coast). Not certain about the sections west of Port Angeles, except that I think it picks up an old logging RR near Lake Crescent in Olympic NP. Port Townsend is where the RR cars were loaded on the dedicated ferry toward Seattle. I know that they rehabbed and repurposed several old RR bridges and reopened a tunnel, with another on the way.
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