Delaware Canal Training Loop

Start: Trenton Transit Center or Morrisville, PA

Finish: Trenton Transit Center or Morrisville, PA

Distance: 11-36mi

Coordinator: Charles Updike

Transit: Arrive via NJTransit, Septa or Amtrak. Carpooling from Maryland or elsewhere might develop among registrants as an option.

Parking: Trenton Transit Center or Delmorr Ave in Morrisville

Lodging: Quality Inn NJ Capitol in Morrisville PA

Join us for our loopiest canal walk, as we enjoy the scenic towpaths on both sides of the Delaware River and cross the river on up to five different bridges. Pass through the small towns on both sides of the Delaware, and cross the river where George did. This walk is great training for our longer towpath walks to come, including the Kennedy50 and the Great Canal Walk. Provisions and bathrooms available every few miles. The 33-36 mile route will include a dedicated stop for lunch and will be swept in the interest of all who are testing new distances. These towpaths are more populated with local traffic than the remote stretches of the C&O along the Potomac that you may know well, are very flat and well maintained, and are at times quite charming.

We will depart from the train station at 7am and will join up with those parking at the Morrisville location at about 7:30 and continue on our way. The closest lodging is a short and pleasant walk from the Morrisville start. More details will be provided via email for those who register for free on Eventbrite. Distance will vary, depending on whether you choose to walk one, two, three, or all four loops between Morrisville/Trenton and New Hope/Lambertville.

Distance options:

If parking in Morrisville: 11, 18 or 33 miles

If starting at the train station: 14, 21 or 36 miles

Highlights:

-Mill Hill Park

-Old Barracks

-State Capitol

-Roebling pedestrian bridge

-Stacy Park

-D and R Canal towpath

-Scudder Falls Bridge

-Washington Crossing

-Lambertville NJ

- New Hope PA

-Revolutionary War gravesites

- Yardley PA

- Morrisville PA

-D and R Canal towpath

Partners:

The East Coast Greenway Alliance is a non-profit organization developing a public multi-use 3,000 mile trail from Canada to Key West through New Jersey and New York. Donations and memberships help make this dream trail a reality.

Circuit Trails is 800 miles of interconnected trails in Greater Philadelphia in the making, already one of America's largest trail networks. Once connected, the Circuit Trails will be one of the nation's premier urban trail networks and it will provide multiple benefits to neighborhoods, communities and the region as a whole.