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Parks and Recreation

Montgomery County Department of Parks & Heritage Services is responsible for creating, enhancing and sustaining the parks, historic sites, natural areas, trails, and greenways. Montgomery County’s parks, historic sites and trails offer facilities, programs, and special events for recreation and leisure. Montgomery County has more than six thousand acres of public open space, including eight parks, a major natural area, five historic sites, and lands along four primary county greenways. It strives to conserve, manage and enhance natural and cultural resources. The Department of Parks and Heritage Services offers a premier trail system with 34 miles of trails connecting greenways, waterways, and heritage corridors within Montgomery County with 28 more miles of trails to be completed this year.

Montgomery County Parks:
Central Perkiomen Valley Park (610) 287-6970
This 800-acre park extends over 10 municipalities and is situated along the scenic Perkiomen Creek in the center of Montgomery County. Visitors can enjoy vistas of the Perkiomen Creek while fishing. Picnic tables and grills are available throughout the park’s picnic grove.

Green Lane Park (215) 234-4528
The park consists of over 3400 acres and three bodies of water totaling 870 acres including four recreational activity sites, fishing, boating, horseback riding, hiking trails and overnight campsites in the Deep Creek Lake area. Rentals are available at the Walt Road Launch.

Lorimer Park (215) 947-3477
This 230+ acre oasis of woods and meadows, in eastern Abington is a natural beauty year-round. Lorimer Park is a haven for wildlife under a canopy of huge trees. Activities include hiking, picnicking, bird and animal watching and cross-country skiing. For the angler, Pennypack Creek is stocked with trout.

Lower Perkiomen Valley Park (610) 666-5371
This 107 acres in the southernmost section of Upper Providence has summertime band concerts, basketball and softball. For the smaller children, an attractive playground can occupy their visits for hours of fun and frolic. Creek-side fishing in the Perkiomen is a quiet pastime for the avid outdoorsmen.

Norristown Farm Park (610) 270-0215
The Norristown Farm Park has history dating back to William Penn and provides beautiful woods and agricultural fields, a stocked trout stream and wildlife in their natural habitats. Dogs are welcome.

Upper Schuylkill Valley Park (610) 948-5170
The Schuylkill River in Upper Providence is 15-acre display of wild animals and raptors. Picnicking and fishing along the river and a scenic hike will lead you the Heritage of the Schuylkill Canal in Mont Clare.

Montgomery County Trails:
The Chester Valley Trail
The Chester Valley Trail in Montgomery County will take a visitor from the King of Prussia area into downtown Norristown, the Montgomery County seat.

Cross County Trail
The 17.5-mile Cross County Trail will stretch from Conshohocken through Willow Grove and on into Bucks County, linking two densely populated areas of Montgomery County.

Liberty Bell Trail
A former trolley line known as the Liberty Bell Route was incorporated as a trail corridor. The Liberty Bell Route was an interurban trolley, or electric streetcar, that ran from Philadelphia to Allentown from around 1900 to 1951.

Perkiomen Trail
The 19-mile Perkiomen Trail runs through the Perkiomen Creek Valley from its junction with the Schuylkill River Trail at Oaks, Upper Providence Township to the largest County Park, Green Lane Park.

Schuylkill River Trail
The Schuylkill River Trail extends from downtown Philadelphia to Oaks in Montgomery County. The trail runs through a landscape that varies from parkland to urban and suburban neighborhoods to heavy industrial sites.

Wissahickon Trail
The Wissahickon Green Ribbon Trail is a nearly 20 mile long trail that starts in the City of Philadelphia at the confluence of the Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River and ends in Upper Gwynedd in Montgomery County.

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This Montgomery County website page is for History, Facts, Archives, Records, Museums, Exhibits, Documents, Genealogy, Libraries, Historians, Timeline, Research, Historic Preservation, Ancestry and Statistics in Montgomery County, Abington, Ambler, Arcola, Ardmore, Audubon, Bala Cynwyd, Bechtelsville, Belmont Hills, Blue Bell, Bridgeport, Bryn Athyn, Cedars, Center Square, Cheltenham, Collegeville, Colmar, Conshohocken, Creamery, Dresher, Eagleville, Earlington, Greenville, Elkins Park, Erdenheim, Fairview, Flourtown, Franconia, Frederick, Gilbertsville, Gladwyne, Glenside, Green Lane, Gwynedd, Harleysville, Hatboro, Hatfield, Haverford, Hollywood, Horsham, Jeffersonville, Jenkintown, King of Prussia, Lamott, Lansdale, Laverock, Lederach, Limerick, Linfield, Mainland, Maple Glen, Meadowbrook, Melrose, Miquon, Mont Clare, Montgomeryville, Narberth, Norristown, Oaks, Oreland, Palm, Penllyn, Pennsburg, Perkiomenville, Phoenixville, Plymouth Meeting, Pottstown, Red Hill, Rockledge, Roslyn, Royersford, Rydal, Salford, Sanatoga, Sassamansville, Schwenksville, Skippack, Souderton, Stowe, Sumneytown, Telford, Tylersport, Willow Grove, Worcester, Woxall, Wyncote, Wyndmoor, Wynnewood and Zieglerville. Places of interest in Montgomery County include Delaware River, Green Lane Park, Lorimer Park, Perkiomen Valley Park, Norristown Farm Park, Upper Chester Valley, Cross County Trail, Liberty Bell, Schuylkill River, Lehigh Valley, Delaware Valley and Valley Forge Historic Park.