Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s June volunteer workday is happening June 17th — the day after our fundraiser just across the way. Make it a blowout CT weekend and join us for both! We’ll be cutting back vegetation from the trail, opening sight lines, and other general trail work. We also have some boardwalk maintenance […]
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. […]
Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s next volunteer workday is coming on Saturday, April 15th. (We have them on the third Saturday of each month.) This month’s worksite will be a little different — Cresheim Trail adjacent, but in plain sight from the trail. After some great discussion with the Chestnut Hill Greenspace Committee and Chestnut […]
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 […]
