Template:Did you know nominations/Northwest Branch Trail
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The result was: promoted by Vincent60030 (talk) 18:50, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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Northwest Branch Trail
Northwest Branch Trail
... that the Northwest Branch Trail parallels the Rachel Carson Greenway along opposite sides of the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River?"Northwest Branch Stream Valley Park Trails". Montgomery Parks. M-NCPPC. Retrieved 2009-11-14.- ALT1:
... that the area of the Northwest Branch Trail 1/2 mile south of the Burnt Mills Dam was once a favorite place of Teddy Roosevelt?https://www.washingtonian.com/2014/02/18/hidden-gems-2014-outdoors
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Created/expanded by Evrik (talk). Self-nominated at 04:00, 31 August 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The image is suitably licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:04, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, could you explain why this is hooky? The links in the hook are also overlong and a little imposing for someone who's not acquainted with any of them (like me). Yoninah (talk) 18:57, 5 September 2020 (UTC)- Two parallel trails on opposite sides of the same small river seemed interesting to me. I added an Alt. --evrik (talk) 04:36, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Evrik: Thank you, that's much better. Now I'm just wondering if the directions are so necessary, especially because Burnt Mills Dam redirects to a different page. Something short and sweet like:
- ALT1a: ... that Theodore Roosevelt considered a portion of the Northwest Branch Trail (pictured) one of his favorite places? Yoninah (talk) 13:30, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
- Alt1a is acceptable to me. @Cwmhiraeth:?
