This year, make a plan to volunteer with Friends of the Cresheim Trail on the third Saturday of each month. We’ll carry out a variety of tasks across the year that make improvements to the trail, the habitat and ecology, and the overall experience. Those tasks include general trail improvements (e.g. armoring retaining walls and […]
Love Your Park Fall Planting: Sat 11/19
Friends of the Cresheim Trail is happy to take part in another fall planting as part of the Love Your Park Fall Service — and in our case, we’re giving folks an extra opportunity to participate. While the main volunteer service will take place on November 12th, ours will happen on Saturday, November 19th at […]
Volunteer Workday (and CVD Cleanup!) Sat 10/15
Friends of the Cresheim Trail and Mt Airy Trash Team are teaming up for a co-led volunteer day to do both trail work and a cleanup of Cresheim Valley Drive. On Saturday, October 15th, meet us at 9am at the Cresheim Valley Pergola (corner of Germantown Avenue and Cresheim Valley Drive) to check out that […]
Sept 2022: Springfield Township Trails Plan
As you probably know, the ultimate goal for the Cresheim Trail is to connect Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park to Fort Washington State Park in Montgomery County (pictured here, where a bridge built by the Pennsylvania Railroad will make that final connection). There are currently about two and a half miles of trail in Philly between […]
2021 Spring Newsletter
Looking Back / Looking Forward Looking back at 2020, the watch words were ‘quiet’ and ‘slow’. The interruption of normal business by the pandemic granted the board time to reflect and reassess our priorities and to set a direction for the next year. Looking forward to 2021, we are excited about new engagement and outreach […]