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 […]
January volunteer workday CANCELED
Hate to do it folks, but we’re gonna cancel the volunteer workday planned for this weekend. More snow’s on its way and it’s gonna be about 15º Saturday morning, so we’ll try again next month. Instead, wax up your boots, fill up your fat tires, layer up and get out into it. Please note: Next […]
2024 Volunteer Workdays
SAVE THE DATES: 2024 Cresheim Trail volunteer workdays! We’ve heard from a number of you that Saturdays don’t always work, so this year, we’ve added a Sunday option. Beginning in just a couple weeks, we’ll alternate Saturdays and Sundays for our monthly events: Saturdays for odd months and Sundays for evens. We bumped June up […]
Cresheim Trail: 2023 in review, 2024 in sight
Friends of the Cresheim Trail is extremely grateful to everyone who helped us make 2023 an incredible year on the trail: volunteers, partners, donors, elected officials, friends, trail users. Thank you all. We got a lot done this year, and we have much to look forward to in the new year and beyond. Some 2023 […]