FreeWalkers Getaway: Pennypack Trail

Enjoy our FreeWalkers weekend getaway along this gorgeous trail.

Start: Warminster Train Station

Finish: Holmesburg Junction Station

Distance: 16-23mi

Where to find us: In or near the parking lot

Optional endpoints: Bethayres 16 mi (with train back to Yardley, West Trenton or Philly)

Terrain: gravel, paved, some grass, with very few road crossings.

Transit: SEPTA Warminster Line

Return: SEPTA train

Parking: Parking available at stations

Difficulty: Advanced

Category: nature, history, urban, seashore, scenic, theme

Coordinator: Charles Updike

16 to 23 mile walk from Warminster to Holmesburg along the Pennypack Creek

This event is free and open to the public, and part of a two-day walk. Walk either or both. Numerous lodging options in or near Warminster.

Sat Aug 12 Trenton or Yardley to Warminster (D&L Trail, Bucks County)

Sun Aug 13 Warminster to Holmesburg or Bethayres (Pennypack Creek)

Enjoy a veritable arboretum along the Pennypack Creek in all of its glory, plus the recently developed Pennypack rail trail in Montgomery County. This shady wooded course wends gently from the shores of the Delaware River through the city to pastoral suburbs, offering a variety of footbridges and interesting old bridges passing over the trail. We will see where Lenape tribal councils took place, where the most historic train wreck in the Delaware Valley tragically unfolded, and where the oldest bridge in the nation, built in 1697, remains in service to local traffic.

Highlights:

- Delaware River

- Baxter Trail

- King's Highway Bridge

- Pennypack Creek

- Fox Chase Farm

- Lorimer Park

- Lenni Lenape Council Rock

- Mini covered bridge

- Bryn Athyn

- The Gulch

Partners:

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.