3)W.ChesterPk11aBreakft,12N:Trail+woodsToDrexelLin,inDarbyCkHIKEseriesHead-Tide

Includes ALL Darby Creek Hike Series dates. Last minute inquires:[masked]
Always check website for any last minute updates AND this descriptions further HIKE details BELOW!:

Darby Creek Valley Association

&the PhillyHiking MeetUp Group

~would like you to join them to offically fully open the watershed

w/"HEADWATERS to TIDEWATER"Tours of the DARBY CREEK VALLEY

☆6 SundayHIKES~11AM&1SunBIKE RIDE

7 Expert Guided Tour SEGMENTS

VALLEY FORGE PARK to BERWYN. BERWYN via-Darby & Ithan Creeks to HAVERFORD Environmental Ctr.&WChesterPike Darby Creek. WCP to DREXELLINE. DREXELLINE via Swedish Log Cabin to CLIFTON. CLIFTON to DARBY BORO History. DARBY to HEINZ REFUGE-RIDE:REFUGE to FT MIFFLIN. SEE MORE BELOW

ALL HIKE and BIKE segments ARE TRANSIT FRIENDLY starts (+ finishes.) ABOUT 11AM SUNDAYS, ONE WAY tours with GUIDED Transit Return options.

You MUST carry a mask w/you for where it may still be required like on SEPTA & inside certain places.

Again we want to emphasize all HIKES are ONE WAY and Bike/Transit friendly in the way their set up with great care to have multiple routes serving start AND end points and with transit friendly returns to the start points and you car or your home transit routes--so you can really go green! Great care will be taken and we have at least partial escorts or group returns to start points IF YOU DRIVE and instructions for key TRANSIT connections.

A small suggested donation of $10 will be asked to help defray costs before your second tour.

HEADWATERS-TIDEWATER HIKE Series is:

1) Sunday 8/22 HIKE: VALLEY FORGE VISITOR CENTER (#125 BUS connections from:--Center City SEPTA HQS 13th&MarketSts,Amtrak 30thSt Station outside at 29th&MarketSts, WissahickonTransferCtr,GulphMillsSta TC[of#100NorristownHSLine], KingOfPrussiaTransitCenter)Hike TO BERWYN STATION via VF fortifications, Grand Parade, Valley Creek, VF covered bridge, Lafayette s Hqs, Chesterbrook Paths, ChesterValleyTrail, SouthMountain, across various generations of ye great Philadelphia high Road to BerwynTavern and Sta (for RR RETURN to RadnorRRSta.》#100 Radnor NHSL Sta to GulphMillsTC》#125 to KoP TC,VFVC.

LEAVE:VF VisitorCenter 11:15AM

Note: Long Walk and Long Walk uphill

2) Sunday 9/12 Long EndOfSummer HIKE: BERWYN STATION(on ThorndaleRRLine) TO HAVERFORD EnvironmentalCtr/WEST CHESTER PIKE Barnaby sRestarant via Berwyn village, HSR Future, Lincoln Highway Past Berwyn village, EastownLibrary/Park, Leopard&Sugertown paths, Waynebrooke easements, Trust Park Land, NewtownRd, HilltopHouse, Waterloo Mills Preserve Trails, Newtown Historic Society, PaperMillRd and easements, Skunk Hollow Park Trails,SawMillPark, active remnants of MontegomeryScottEstate"Farm",
Radnor1rmSchool,OverbrookGC,Ithan Creek Valley Park,I-476 utilityTrail,Estate I-476 Haverford Trail, NewtownSqBranchRailTrail, Haverford Twp.DarbyCkValleyTrail..#104BusReturn to69thSt Terminal to》#100RadnorSta to》RadnorRR Sta.
LEAVE:BERWYN STATION Eastbound Platform 11:30AM

Note: Very Long 13Mile+ mostly woods Hike w optional pristeen creek splash cool down

3) Sunday 9/26 HIKE: WestChesterPIKE Barnabys[masked]ld West Chester Pike TO DREXELLINE and Supermarket via Darby Creek Park, Merry Place, JackMcDonaldFields, "WhetstoneRun" access Springfield/New Marple County Park and potential Central County (Crum,Media,Ridley and ChesterCreek Trails) inter watersheds Trails, DarbyCreekTrail, PilgrimPark,UpperDarbyHistoricSociety #101 TROLLEY (and escorted Return via 69th St).
LEAVE: WelcomeBreakfast Barnabys11am
Hike from Meet in Barnabys: 12Noon

4) Sunday 10/10 HIKE: DREXELLINE/#101- MEDIA TROLLEY Stop TO #102 TROLLEY via Springfield Parks access, Drexelbrook emerging creekside path, former Addingham Ind. Mills and mountain like setting of 1600 s Swedish Cabin(and return via Drexel Hill Jct)
LEAVE:#101 MediaTrolley DrexelineStop 11:00am. Note:if coming by #110/111 bus to Drexelline from West call to meet just after 11am

5) Sunday 10/24 HIKE: #102 SharonHill Trolley Creek Rd Station, TO DARBY BORO Historic Attractions via Clifton Ind. Sites, Lindberg Bridge Dog Park,Lansdowne Park Scottdale Rd, EdgarScottEstate futureCountyPark, Eden Cemetary,DarbyBoro history Creek Walk.
LEAVE:#102 SharonHill Trolley Creek Road Station 11:00am Note: #109 bus is several blocks away from start. Call to meet. There is secure parking nearby

6) Sunday 11/7 HIKE: DARBY BORO TRANSPORTATION CENTER TO HEINZ REFUGE via PowellPark, Darby "MillSt"Native ford site, former Darby Marinas,Darby Creek greenbelt and woods, Mt Lawn Cemetary and Billy Holiday toast, Underground RR History, Heinz Refuge Cusano Center.
LEAVE: DarbyTranspotationCenter History/CreekWalk 11:00am. Note we will be in TC area looking at various historical markers if arriving on slightly later hourly? bus.

7) Sunday late Nov TBD date BIKE RIDE: HEINZ REFUGE (w EastwickSta on AirportLine #108,37,115buses, ECoastGreenway,CobbsCreekParkway Multi-User Trail,CobbsCreekBikeway) Cusano Center and Refuge Trails TO Ft Mifflin Event? Via roads exploring exstensive locations of former Darby Creek fed wetlands to 1799 Latarazzo oldest Imigration and Qurenteen building in US restoration as Tinicum Township building as well as site of ye 1743 Pest House Native Site and the orgin of Philadelphia.
LEAVE: 11:30am Train to Eastwick Sta arrives 11:10am which we will meet before ride and point out future paths there to Refuge. Trip will include a Fairwell for the Season Meal at a Tinicum Diner before the Latarazzo and Ft Mifflin.

See the PHILLYHIKES Meetup web page for any additional details and any last minute changes.

IT S GOOD TO HAVE A GUIDE!