“50 miles of trails”
Located in NW Philly, the 1,800 acres of Wissahickon Valley Park are part of Philadelphia's 10,500-acre park system, one of the largest urban park systems in the world. A lovely, wooded valley with Wissahickon Creek running through its entire seven-mile length, the Park extends from Chestnut Hill in the north to Manayunk in the southwest. Forbidden Drive, a wide gravel road closed to automobile traffic, parallels the Creek and the Park is criss-crossed by more than 50 miles of often rugged trails.
You'd be hard pressed to find another park where you feel away from it all in the middle of a major city. (No, Central Park isn't even close.) I used to spend hours hiking and biking here and rarely took the same route twice. You could drive an hour or more from Philly and not find a more beautiful and serene place to walk.
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