GLIN==> Press release: Nov 5 Emporium PA conference features Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail among success stories

PRESS RELEASE: October 28, 2010
Contacts:  Kurt Schumacher, Great Lakes Seaway Trail, 585-857-1004; Wes
Ramsey, Penn Soil Resource Conservation and Development Council,
814-226-8160 
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November 5 Geocaching Conference Features Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail

Emporium, PA -- Although only three months old, the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
has already become a huge hit with the geocaching community. The 75-cache
GPS travel adventure extends the 518 miles of the byway that is one of
America¹s Byways and a National Recreation Trail.
 
On Friday, November 5, tourism and business leaders attending the Cashing in
on Geocaching Conference in Emporium, PA, will hear how the new Great Lakes
Seaway Trail GeoTrail developed into a hot new reason to travel along the
freshwater shoreline of the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River
and Lake Erie in New York and Pennsylvania.
 
The conference focused on how to utilize the sport of geocaching to increase
travel-related business opportunities is organized and presented by the
Pennsylvania Wilds Planning Team, which includes Penn Soil Resource
Conservation and Development Council Project Coordinator Wes Ramsey. Ramsey
said, ³We are pleased to showcase the Great Lakes Seaway Trail in our panel
on successful GeoTrail projects and positive experiences for utilizing
geocaching to promote tourism and travel-related business opportunities.²
 
Great Lakes Seaway Trail Director of Business Relations Kurt Schumacher will
join Betty Squire, Vice President of Marketing for the Allegheny GeoTrail in
Northwestern and North-Central Pennsylvania; and Lyn Pilch of the West Bend
Cache Ba$h Weekend in West Bend, Wisconsin (45 mins. north of Milwaukee) for
a panel presentation at 1pm.
 
Schumacher, a business/marketing graduate of Grove City College in Grove
City, PA, says ³We were attracted to the Allegheny GeoTrail as a model for
developing the Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail because both trails cover a
fair bit of geography. The Allegheny Trail covers 10 counties in a cluster;
while the Great Lakes Seaway Trail GeoTrail with its 11 shoreline counties
may be the longest linear such trail in the Northeastern U.S.²
 
Schumacher, a native of Webster, NY, a community on the Great Lakes Seaway
Trail, says there is a natural opportunity to share geocachers based on the
proximity of the two Trails. Pennsylvania¹s Crawford and Warren counties
abut Erie County, PA, which is part of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
11-county region. Warren County will host the 9th GeoWoodstock event July 2,
2011.
 
Schumacher manages the Rochester, NY, satellite office of the not-for-profit
Seaway Trail, Inc. organization that is headquartered in Sackets Harbor, NY.
Learn more online at www.seawaytrail.com.
 
For details on the one-day conference see the website at
www.lumberheritage.org or contact Val Shelley, Lumber Heritage Region
Office, 814-486-0215, vshelley at lumberheritage.org. #


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