The Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail is a pathway in Pinellas County in the U.S. state of Florida. It stretches from Tarpon Springs in the north to St. Petersburg in the south, passing through the towns of Crystal Beach, Palm Harbor, Dunedin, Clearwater, Largo, Seminole, Bay Pines, South Pasadena and Gulfport.

It is generally used for exercise and leisure (such as walking, jogging, cycling and inline skating), but can also be used as an alternative to driving. Motor vehicles, other than wheelchairs are prohibited on the trail. The distance of the main trail currently covers 37 miles (59.5 km).

The Pinellas Trail was named in honor of Fred Marquis, former Pinellas County Administrator who served from 1979 until 2000. An average of 90,000 people use the Trail each month. In 1983, a man whose son was killed while riding his bike helped form the Pinellas County Metropolitan Planning Organizations Bicycle Advisory Committee.

This committee, in conjunction with the Pedestrian Safety Committee, wanted a safe place to enjoy cycling, hiking or jogging. At the same time, Pinellas County officials had the problem of what to do with a 34 mile (55 km) corridor of abandoned CSX Transportation right-of-way. The Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroads both served St.

Petersburg and Clearwater. When they both merged into the CSX, CSX Transportation combined the best of the former rail routes to keep as a rail line and the remainder was abandoned. The Pinellas Trail is composed of the following railroad segments: former Seaboard Air Line to the east of Tarpon Springs, the former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad which ran from Tarpon Springs to Clearwater.

At Clearwater, the Trail used the former Seaboard Air Line through the western suburbs and into St. Petersburg. Recently, some former Seaboard Air Line track in an industrial area of western downtown St.

Petersburg had been decommissioned by CSX Transportation and converted to an eastward extension of the Pinellas Trail to downtown St. Petersburg.

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