Mission
Friends of the Cresheim Trail’s mission is to create and promote multi-use trails that connect communities and provide accessible open space in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties.
The Friends of the Cresheim Trail
The Friends of the Cresheim Trail are a volunteer, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working to build multi-use trails that connect Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park and Fort Washington State Park in Montgomery County — and all the communities along the way.
Since 2012, we’ve built a 3-mile network of single-track, natural surface trails for hiking and mountain biking, bringing the Cresheim Trail out from Philadelphia’s beloved Wissahickon Valley Park and into communities long separated from the park through the progress of development, county boundaries, roads, and the ebb and flow of the region. Our current work is focused on extending this network via a 5-mile rail trail primarily within two former railroad rights-of-way. When fully realized, the Cresheim Trail will be part of the Circuit, an 800-mile network of multi-use trails planned for the Greater Philadelphia Region.
This website is for the purpose of disseminating information about this exciting project, and to help gather community support for a trail that will benefit communities in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties and the surrounding region.
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