Friends of the Cresheim Trail is pleased to invite you to hang out Among Friends. On Friday, September 22nd, we’ll host a fundraiser to benefit the trail and begin the necessary next steps to take the trail across Germantown Avenue and toward Stenton Avenue and Montgomery County. Join us 5–7pm on the 22nd at Chestnut […]
Trail Posts, Now on Cresheim Trail
Summer 2023 news: Cresheim Trail now has wayfinding! Friends of the Cresheim Trail installed trail posts on our volunteer workday July 15th, followed by directional tiles on August 1st. (See our Instagram feed for photos.) The posts follow standards in the Wissahickon created by Friends of the Wissahickon, who helped coordinate this project, and approved […]
Cresheim Trail Volunteer Workday Sat 6/17
Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s June volunteer workday is happening June 17th — the day after our fundraiser just across the way. Make it a blowout CT weekend and join us for both! We’ll be cutting back vegetation from the trail, opening sight lines, and other general trail work. We also have some boardwalk maintenance […]
Love Your Park: CV Drive Cleanup Sat 5/20
LOVE YOUR PARK SPRING 2023 Friends of the Cresheim Trail is happy to once again partner with our friends at the Philadelphia Streets Department and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation for a cleanup of Cresheim Valley Drive. It’s part of the Spring 2023 Love Your Park Service, held in partnership by PPR and Fairmount Park Conservancy. […]
Volunteer Workday Sat 4/15
Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s next volunteer workday is coming on Saturday, April 15th. (We have them on the third Saturday of each month.) This month’s worksite will be a little different — Cresheim Trail adjacent, but in plain sight from the trail. After some great discussion with the Chestnut Hill Greenspace Committee and Chestnut […]