Originally Posted by
Whiteknight
Next time you do that ride you might want to consider continuing up along the river and then over the Schuylkill Ave. Bridge. Then down to the Tulpehocken Creek and use the Union Canal Trail up to the stilling basin below Blue Marsh Dam.
I tried that last summer, and became lost. I remember heading up a hill in the late afternoon to a basketball court with a bunch of 'youths' hanging out near the trail. This was shortly after the assaults on the SRT at Norristown, and despite my memories of the repeated assurances of certain folks in Bicycle Club of Philadelphia that 'youths' loitering in a group on the edge of a bike path at dusk is a Good Thing, I turned around.