Schuylkill River Trail

The Schuylkill River Trail is one of Pennsylvania's most popular and heavily used recreational assets and commuter routes. More than one million people annually use the trail at Boathouse Row. The Schuylkill River Trail hugs the east and west sides of the Schuylkill River from its source in Pottsville along a 128 mile stretch down to the Delaware River. Parts of the trail are complete from Schuylkill County through Berks, Montgomery, Chester counties and the City of Philadelphia. This map and website focuses on the trail sections between Reading (Berks County) and Philadelphia.

RECENT PRESS

Courier Post: Urban Trail Pathways Project Set To Roll

February 19, 2012 - Urban Trail Pathway Project Set To Roll (Courier Post)

Latest from The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia Blog

- Manayunk Tow Path Ribbon Cutting Feb. 23 features VIPs
- Feb 21 9AM
- Kudos to Philly's Park and Recreation Department (PPR) for doing a bang up job repairing and improving the Manayunk Tow Path. It was done in record time (a mere several months!) and PPR accomplished a lot with its funding from PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR).
  In addition to the much improved extension of the trail at Shawmont that enables you to avoid much of the cobblestone at the curve, PPR resurfaced the existing gravel path with new stone screenings, constructed new asphalt pavement leading up to four existing wood bridges, and repaired the existing wood railing, posts and planks on said bridges.
  
  This week, PPR and DCNR are holding a ribbon cutting. This is your chance to meet the Secretary of DCNR and Mayor Nutter.
  What: Mayor Nutter cuts the ribbon on the new Manayunk Canal Tow Path
  When: February 23 at 11:30 am
  Where: Lock Street entrance off Main Street
- Philadelphia Cycling Committee - Special Meeting on 10th Street Feb. 23rd
- Feb 17 5:03PM
- John Chin, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation will be in to answer questions about the future of the bike lane on 10th Street at the Philadelphia City Cycling Committee on Thursday February 23rd (Note the changed date). The meeting begins at 6:30 at the Bicycle Coalition Education office 1500 Walnut St, Suite 303, Philadelphia.
  
  The 10th Street bike lane has met opposition in the Chinatown Neighborhood.
  
  Refreshments and a light fare will be available at 6PM.
- An Update On The Slow-Moving Trainwrecks That Are The Federal Transportation Bills
- Feb 17 1:22PM
- We have urged you, our membership and readership, to contact your Congressmen the past few weeks and urge them not to gut biking and walking funding from federal transportation bills. Thank you if you made a phone call or sent a letter. Here is an update on the status of transportation legislation in Washington DC.
  You can stop reading now if you want. This sums it up.
  The Senate (cows on the tracks)
  On the Senate side, Sen. Barbara Boxer is pessimistic about her two-year bill called Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP 21) after the bill was attacked by a swarm of unrelated amendments.
  The House (the train was 8 hour late, ended up in the wrong city, all the passengers got motion sickness, and then the train fell into a river)
  Although we didn't succeed in putting biking and walking back into the House Bill, our opposition to the bill has found some unlikely bedfellows. Not only do biking and walking proponents oppose the House bill, so does the Tea Party, Club for Growth, and several Chicagoland Republican Congressmen.
  
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