Great Falls: Billy Goat Trail in Potomac, MD
Length: 4 miles
The Billy Goat Trail is a 4.7-mile hiking trail that follows a path between the C&O Canal and the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park near Great Falls in Montgomery County, Maryland. The trail has three sections: Section A, the northernmost, is 1.7 miles Section B is 1.4 miles and Section C, the southernmost, is 1.6 miles.
The three sections of the trail do not connect directly with each other, but are connected to each other by the towpath along the C&O Canal. The end point of section C is about 2.75 miles southeast along the towpath from the starting point of section A.