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  • Love Your Park: CV Drive Cleanup Sat 5/20
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  • Cresheim Trail volunteer workday Sat 3/18
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Friends of the Cresheim Trail
PO Box 4341
Philadelphia, PA  19118

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Tonight's the night! Join Friends of the Cresheim Tonight's the night! Join Friends of the Cresheim Trail this evening at 6 to look off into the future - as this aerial photo does north/east past Stenton Avenue. Our open house will feature boards and maps that consider how we got here and perhaps more importantly where we're going next. It's tonight at 6 at Lovett Memorial Library in Mt Airy. See you there! #cresheimtrail #trailbuilding
Reminder: Our public meeting is next Monday! Come Reminder: Our public meeting is next Monday! Come out to Lovett Memorial Library in Mt Airy for our open house to hear what the latest plans and next steps are for the Cresheim Trail - AND add your feedback! We'll also have an online survey in case you can't make it. #cresheimtrail #trailbuilding #publicmeeting
THIS SATURDAY: Join Friends of the Cresheim Trail THIS SATURDAY: Join Friends of the Cresheim Trail for our monthly volunteer workday. We’ll meet at our favorite spot, along Cresheim Valley Drive opposite from Navajo Street - there’s plenty of parking here but if you park on the Navajo side (not recommended), please use caution crossing CVD on foot. Hiking and biking to the workday also recommended! We’ve got some healthy young trees to transplant, some stairs to repair (pictured), and other general trail improvements on the docket. That’s this Saturday, February 18th, 9am on the Cresheim Trail. FOCT hosts volunteer workdays on the third Saturday of every month, so if you can’t make this one, plan to catch us on the next one. #cresheimtrail #volunteer #trailbuilding
Save the date! Friends of the Cresheim Trail will Save the date! Friends of the Cresheim Trail will host a public meeting on Monday, March 6th, 6–7:30pm at Lovett Library in Mt Airy. It'll be an open house format to talk about our first 10 years, and what our plans are moving forward. More info to come - hope to see you there. #cresheimtrail #onthecircuit
What a great first work day of the year! Fifteen v What a great first work day of the year! Fifteen volunteers came out for a variety of tasks this morning: armoring the stone bridge near the boardwalk, weed whacking the newly cut portion of trail, cross hatching the new boards under the Chestnut Hill West train bridge, closing a muddy swampy section of trail and more. Thanks to all who came out, including some crew leaders from @fowissahickon and families from @somontmtb @independenceyouthcycling @phillywissmtb Lots of good things happening on the Cresheim Trail, let's keep the momentum going. We have volunteer workdays on the third Saturday of every month, so plan ahead and come out to join us! #cresheimtrail #volunteer #trailbuilding
Reminder: Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s first Reminder: Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s first volunteer workday of 2023 will happen TOMORROW - Saturday, January 21st at 9am. We’ll meet at our usual spot along Cresheim Valley Drive opposite Navajo Street — hiking and biking there is encouraged, and if you drive, you can find parking along CV Drive (park side — please use extra caution if you’re crossing the drive on foot) or on Germantown Avenue, a 3-5 minute walk away. We’ll be checking out the newly cut section (thanks @philaparkandrec!), we’ll close a muddy old section as part of our floodplain restoration near the boardwalk, and we’ll get to some other general trail improvements as we can. Hope to see you there! #cresheimtrail #volunteer #trailbuilding
Next weekend, join the Friends of the Cresheim Tra Next weekend, join the Friends of the Cresheim Trail for our first workday of 2023. Saturday, January 21st at 9am, we'll meet along Cresheim Valley Drive opposite the intersection with Navajo Street. We'll be working on closing a muddy trail as part of our floodplain/wetland restoration effort. We'll also be working on English Ivy removal and trimming the recently cleared path along the railroad grade to Germantown Avenue. If the ground is soft enough, we'll repair some stone steps that were built about a century ago and do some minor trail maintenance. #cresheimtrail #trailbuilding #volunteer #onthecircuit #parailstotrails
New year, new Cresheim Trail? Kinda! With generous New year, new Cresheim Trail? Kinda! With generous help from @philaparkandrec last week, we took a brush hog to mow a path through the vegetation on the old railroad right-of-way from the upper loop closest to New Covenant Campus over to the bridge at Germantown Avenue. The bridge itself is a work in progress, a complicated one at that, but one we're keen on seeing happen soon. (More on this to come.) This is the first section of rail trail to be fitted out — a rail trail which will ultimately go to Fort Washington State Park as part of @thecircuittrails network. It's only an out-and-back for now, but it's a nice first step and a glimpse into the future. Thick soles (or tires) recommended. #cresheimtrail #trailbuilding #parailstotrails #onthecircuit

 

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