The final volunteer workday of 2025 is shaping up to be a real capstone to a terrific year on the Cresheim Trail. It’s happening on Sunday, December 7th. We’re looking forward to partnering with Wissahickon East Park Friends to establish a new connection between the Cresheim Rail Trail and the southwestern corner of Wissahickon East […]
Love Your Park: Cresheim Trail Fall Planting Sat 11/15
The colors are blazing and things are getting real spooky, so it must be FALL PLANTING TIME. Lucky for us, we have a whole bunch of plants to put in the ground, and the date has been set: Join us Saturday, November 15th, as we expand our ecological restoration zone once again, filling in gaps […]
Cresheim Valley Drive Cleanup, Sat 10/18
Friends of the Cresheim Trail is happy to invite YOU to join us and all our Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill friends for the fall cleanup of Cresheim Valley Drive. It’s coming Saturday, October 18th, at 9am. We’ll meet at the Cresheim Valley Pergola, on the corner of Cresheim Valley Drive and Germantown Avenue. (Read […]
Cresheim Trail Volunteer Workday Sat 7/19
Our July volunteer workday should be a good one. The boardwalk, as it will sometimes, needs a little attention with some planks in need of replacement, and one section has started to droop a tad so we’ll reset it. We’d also like to spend a little time under the SEPTA Chestnut Hill West Line bridge, […]
Sat 6/14 Cresheim Trail volunteer workday CANCELED
Sorry folks, the weather for Saturday looks no bueno, so we’ve made the decision to cancel our June volunteer workday. We’ll run it back next month — Saturday July 19th is the target date. We’ll definitely have some vegetation to trim by then, and maaaybe some other top tier trail tasks. Stay tuned, stay dry, […]