Join Friends of the Cresheim Trail for our final volunteer workday on Saturday, December 7th: the fall cleanup of Cresheim Valley Drive. Our friends at the Philadelphia Streets Department will help us close the Drive between Germantown Avenue and Allens Lane AND remove the trash that we bag up that day. We’re happy to once […]
CT Fall Planting Sat 11/16
Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s November volunteer workday is always a good one: our annual fall planting! This year’s arrives Saturday, November 16th. SIGN UP HERE. Each May and November, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Fairmount Park Conservancy team up to present Love Your Park, a week of stewardship activities across the city. Through this […]
Volunteer Workday Sun 10/20
Changing leaves, a nip in the air, and long handled tools are all planned for our monthly volunteer workday, on Sunday, October 20th. We’ll meet at 9am on Cresheim Road where Cresheim Trail crosses. We’ve got a variety of tasks, including some trail improvements (grade reversals and tread work), the usual vegetation stuff (sight line […]
Volunteer Workday Sat 9/21
Friends of the Cresheim Trail will host our next volunteer workday on Saturday, September 21st at 9am. We’ll have a variety of relatively light tasks to handle in the vicinity south of the Germantown Avenue trailhead, including a little attention to the boardwalk, the usual vegetation trimming, and some other general trail stuff. We’ll meet […]
Volunteer Workday Sun 8/18
The next volunteer workday on the Cresheim Trail is coming Sunday, August 18th. We’ll have a variety of light, late summer tasks like the typical trimming of vegetation from the trail corridor, clearing some fallen branches and brush after Tropical Storm Debby passed through, potentially some rock work, possibly some boardwalk maintenance. We’ll meet at […]