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Greater Philadelphia Area Parks
Some of our favorite urban parks in the greater Philadelphia area:
With 63 neighborhood parks, Fairmount Park is Philadelphia's 9,200 acre citywide park
system.
Walking Tours of Fairmount Park site has a lot of easily accessible information about
Fairmount Park:
The 1,800 acres of Wissahickon Valley Park are part of Philadelphia’s 9,200-acre Fairmount
Park, one of the largest city parks in the world.
Pennypack Park, a hidden treasure located in Northeast Philadelphia. Pennypack Park is
one of many parks throughout the City of Philadelphia under the management of the
Fairmount Park Commission. Established in 1905 by an ordinance to insure the protection
of Pennypack Creek and the preservation of the surrounding land. The combined parks
total about 8900 acres and constitute one of the largest landscaped parks systems in the
country. Pennypack, in the Far Northeast, covers approximately 1600 acres and is
composed of woodlands, meadows and wetlands.
Friends of Pennypack Park:
The Friends of Fox Chase Farm - The only remaining working farm in Philadelphia, gives
many tours and craft workshops for kids and adults. (located within Pennypack Park).
You can follow in the footsteps of the brilliant artists John James Audubon and Alexander
Wilson (the fathers of American ornithology) by bird watching along Pennypack Creek. The
Pennypack Environmental Center was originally dedicated as a bird sanctuary in 1958.
Many of the Nordic Reflections images from the Parkscapes of Pennypack Park and the
Transformations series were created from the parkscapes near the Pennypack
Environmental Center.
Tookany Creek Park:
Tookany Creek Parkway, located in Cheltenham, PA is undergoing an amazingly beautiful
transformation to become a scenic well-designed urban space to walk, run or watch birds.
Phase two of the Tookany Creek Parkway pedestrian trail, which runs from Jenkintown Road
to New Second Street, is under construction and will be ready for use no later than spring
Read more about the program and see an photo of some of the work, which we watched as
it happened.
Learn about the entire Tookany Creek watershed.
system.
Walking Tours of Fairmount Park site has a lot of easily accessible information about
Fairmount Park:
The 1,800 acres of Wissahickon Valley Park are part of Philadelphia’s 9,200-acre Fairmount
Park, one of the largest city parks in the world.
Pennypack Park, a hidden treasure located in Northeast Philadelphia. Pennypack Park is
one of many parks throughout the City of Philadelphia under the management of the
Fairmount Park Commission. Established in 1905 by an ordinance to insure the protection
of Pennypack Creek and the preservation of the surrounding land. The combined parks
total about 8900 acres and constitute one of the largest landscaped parks systems in the
country. Pennypack, in the Far Northeast, covers approximately 1600 acres and is
composed of woodlands, meadows and wetlands.
Friends of Pennypack Park:
The Friends of Fox Chase Farm - The only remaining working farm in Philadelphia, gives
many tours and craft workshops for kids and adults. (located within Pennypack Park).
You can follow in the footsteps of the brilliant artists John James Audubon and Alexander
Wilson (the fathers of American ornithology) by bird watching along Pennypack Creek. The
Pennypack Environmental Center was originally dedicated as a bird sanctuary in 1958.
Many of the Nordic Reflections images from the Parkscapes of Pennypack Park and the
Transformations series were created from the parkscapes near the Pennypack
Environmental Center.
Tookany Creek Park:
Tookany Creek Parkway, located in Cheltenham, PA is undergoing an amazingly beautiful
transformation to become a scenic well-designed urban space to walk, run or watch birds.
Phase two of the Tookany Creek Parkway pedestrian trail, which runs from Jenkintown Road
to New Second Street, is under construction and will be ready for use no later than spring
Read more about the program and see an photo of some of the work, which we watched as
it happened.
Learn about the entire Tookany Creek watershed.
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