Find Nature and History Along the Pennypack Trail
The Pennypack Trail is part of the Montgomery County Trail Network and the planned East Coast Greenway, as well as the Circuit Trails and checks a box on the Montco Trail Challenge. The 6.2-mile trail was built on the former Fox Chase-Newtown SEPTA line and follows the Pennypack Creek.
The northern section of the crushed stone trail starts at Rockledge Park and continues north to County Line Road where it meets the Newton Rail Trail. The southern segment runs from 8639 Pine Road in Philadelphia to the creek’s mouth at the Delaware River where it connects with the Baxter Trail. Like many of the area trails, it seamlessly blends pastoral scenery and city life as the trail goes under multiple roadways and also crosses the active SEPTA West Trenton line. The trail cuts through the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust lands (which offers its own trail network) and runs through Lorimer Park in Abington. (The Lorimer Park Fox Chase Farm Trail offers access to the southern section of the Pennypack Trail.)
A number of historic sites can be viewed from the trail and the stone-arch bridge at Frankford Avenue is said to be the oldest surviving road bridge in the nation, dating to the 1600s. It is accessible to hikers and bikers without vehicles, via SEPTA rail lines. Other points of interest along he trail are the Pennypack Environmental Center and Fox Chase Farm.
