We’re tightening the screws on this month’s Cresheim Trail volunteer workday. A second round of trail posts awaits installation in 13 locations, eight of which we’ll put in the ground on SUNDAY, AUGUST 17TH at 9AM. We’ll meet at Mermaid Park in Chestnut Hill, the park space at 7645 Germantown Avenue you may remember from […]
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, […]
Cresheim Valley Drive Spring Cleanup – Love Your Park – Sat 5/17
On Saturday, May 17th, 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 […]
Fundraiser Sat 4/19, Volunteer Workday Sun 4/20
It’s an Earth Day springtime double down on the Cresheim Trail! Choose from two options (or choose both): SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH, 7–9PM: Join us on the Trail to the Future, Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s 2025 fundraiser to formally kick off the engineering and design phase of the Cresheim Rail Trail between Germantown and Stenton […]