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Visiting Wissahickon Creek
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Wissahickon Creek
Fairmount Park is no secret in Philadelphia. Consisting of 63 parks over 9,200 acres, the park system covers 10 percent of the city’s land, but makes for very different experiences, depending upon the places you visit.
Yesterday, we took a walk down Forbidden Drive, along the Wissahickon Creek, in the northwestern section of the park and the city.
Auto traffic is forbidden except for a couple of parking areas, so you will see nothing but walkers, hikers, bikers and an occasional rider on horseback.
Except for the occasional intrusion of air traffic passing overhead, it’s easy to forget you are in the fourth-largest urban area in America.
5 Comments
March 8th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I came through Philly yesterday. Loads of boaters on the water along rt 76 and the zoo has the balloon ride up, spring is here :-D
March 8th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I feel the same when I am on the U of P campus. Can’t believe I am in an urban environment.
BTW – Philly has slipped to 6, behind Houston & Phoenix if you are using pop. as the metric and #5 behind Houston in Sq. mi.
Still, all things considered I’d rather be in Philly.
Steve
March 8th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
We took a walk along Forbidden Drive and the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park yesterday: http://is.gd/moE7
March 8th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
RT @JimMacMillan We took a walk along Forbidden Drive and the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park yesterday http://is.gd/moE7
March 9th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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