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 […]
Cresheim Trail Volunteer Workday Sat 7/20
The early forecast for the July Cresheim Trail workday — Saturday, July 20th — looks good, sunny and comfortably in the 60s–70s at go time. We’ll meet at 9am at the classic Cresheim Trail workday spot, on *northbound* Cresheim Valley Drive opposite Navajo Street. There’s plenty of parking on that side (no parking on southbound, […]
Cresheim Valley Drive Spring Cleanup – Love Your Park – Sat 5/18
On Saturday, May 18th, Friends of the Cresheim Trail and our friends in Mt Airy and Chestnut Hill will close Cresheim Valley Drive to traffic between Germantown and Stenton Avenues and take to the streets with trash bags and trash pickers and clean the drive as part of Love Your Park spring festivities. We’ll meet […]
Earth Day volunteer event Sun 4/21
The Cresheim Trail volunteer workday for April is a multi-level celebration: For one, it’s Earth Day weekend, and what better way to celebrate than by pitching in to make it just a little better? And secondly, it’s the first anniversary of the creation of the Friends Loop — the Cresheim-adjacent loop trail on the Chestnut […]
Philadelphia and Montgomery County Communities Unite to Extend Cresheim Trail
NOTE: This story originally appeared on Independence Youth Cycling’s website. Philadelphia, PA – In a significant community-driven initiative, Friends of Cresheim Trail (FOCT), Independence Youth Cycling (IYC), including its youth mountain bike teams SoMont Cycling and Philly Wiss, along with local volunteers and Cresheim Trail enthusiasts, have successfully extended the Cresheim Trail to the border […]