The Region's Best Places to Hike/Walk
Check out the results of this week's Readers' Choice poll from the Greater Philadelphia area.
From the Upper Main Line to Northwest Philadelphia and around the Greater Philadelphia area, Patch polled readers to find the best places to hike. After a week of voting, the winners the Readers' Choices have been tallied. Check out which businesses were Patch Readers' Choice winners below.
If there’s a great place we missed, please be sure to let us know in the comments, and if we hit the best ones, let everyone else know by clicking on the location and leaving a review.
Chester County
- West Chester: East Goshen Park, 1661 Paoli Pike, West Chester
- Malvern: Okehocking Preserve 5316 W Chester Pike, Newtown Square
- Phoenixville: Valley Forge Park
- Tredyffrin-Easttown: Chester County Valley Trail
Delaware County
- Media: Ridley Creek State Park, E Bishop Hollow Road & Chapel Hill Road, Media
- Marple Newtown: Veterans Memorial Park, Lawrence Road between Warren Blvd and Hillside Lane, Broomall
- Springfield: Smedley Park, 20 Paper Mill Road, Springfield
- Haverford-Havertown: Haverford Reserve Trail
Main Line East
- Bala Cynwyd: Cynwyd Heritage Trail, E Montgomery Avenue and Bala Avenue, Bala Cynwyd
- Bryn Mawr: Rolling Hill Park, 1301 Rose Glen Road, Gladwyne
- Radnor: The Radnor Trail, which you can get onto from Friends of Radnor Trail Park, 304 Liberty Lane, Wayne
- Ardmore: The Barnes Foundation, 300 N Latches Lane, Merion Station
Philadelphia
- Roxborough-Manayunk: Forbidden Drive
- Mt. Airy: Wissahickon Valley Park, 952 Blue Bell Terrace
- Chestnut Hill: Forbidden Drive
faith yesner
8:51 am on Sunday, May 27, 2012
Wondering how okehocking preserve in edgemont was not mentioned here? This is a wonderful land preserve, with miles of trails and fields.....off leash dog walking....streams and hills...valleys and old barns. Just wonderful ! At west Chester pike and delchester rds, entrance on delchester....going west on rt 3, turn right on delchester, entrance is on left 1/4 mile or so.
Pete Kennedy
11:09 am on Sunday, May 27, 2012
Hi Faith, Bob is correct below. Okehocking is listed as the Malvern winner above. It's in Willistown Township, but has a Newtown Square address. Definitely a great place to take a hike—check out some of our photos of the preserve: http://patch.com/L-rc2P.
Butch Fisher
9:00 am on Sunday, May 27, 2012
This is the Okehoking Preserve that they are talking about. It's in Willistown, not Edgemont.
Roz Warren
10:01 am on Sunday, May 27, 2012
the barnes foundation isn't in ardmore. it's in merion.
Amanda Mahnke
8:03 pm on Sunday, May 27, 2012
Roz—correct! But the Ardmore-Merion-Wynnewood Patch covers the communities of Ardmore, Merion, Wynnewood, Penn Wynne and Haverford, so it is within our coverage area... it's just faster to say Ardmore Patch.
dottie glanfield
4:02 pm on Friday, June 1, 2012
Scott Arboretum, entrance and parking, at Swarthmore College, Chester Road; is lovely in all seasons. The amphitheater, trails should be visited; trees and plants are labeled; an Alexander Calder piece and Abracadabra are on the grounds; lush rose garden.
Joanne Murray
1:29 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
Cynwyd Heritage Trail
zhongzhong
9:58 am on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
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