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. […]
A very special, very big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to Lovett Memorial Library on March 6th. We’re excited to keep the momentum going and bring the Cresheim Trail north past Germantown Avenue and plan ahead for the Montgomery County phases. With all this in mind, we’d love your feedback! Please take our […]
Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s March workday has us in full spring prep mode. We’ll continue the ecological restoration we’ve been building in the area around the boardwalk with live staking of native plants (think elderberry, pussy willow, red osier dogwood). And we’ll surely check on our fall plantings that included pawpaw, hornbeam, beech, and […]
SAVE THE DATE! Friends of the Cresheim Trail and our partners will host a Cresheim Trail public meeting on Monday, March 6th, 6–7:30pm at Lovett Memorial Library (6945 Germantown Avenue in Mt Airy). The meeting will be an open house format to catch folks up on the progress FOCT has made with the existing trail […]
As you probably know, the ultimate goal for the Cresheim Trail is to connect Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park to Fort Washington State Park in Montgomery County (pictured here, where a bridge built by the Pennsylvania Railroad will make that final connection). There are currently about two and a half miles of trail in Philly between […]