'Bristol Stomp' Takes 18-Mile Walk To Trenton From Bristol

BRISTOL, PA —Planning on taking a stroll Saturday? How about walking 18 miles to Trenton?

That's the plan for the guided history tour of colonial Lower Bucks County, which takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, said Charles Updike, regional director of Free Walkers, a social network for individuals interested in participating in distance walking events.

The walk starts in Bristol and finishes at the Trenton Station with a return trip on a Septa train. For those who can't go the distance, there are optional endpoints in Morrisville (15 miles - bus) Fairless Hills (10 miles - bus) and Levittown (6 miles -bus or train).

The walk also includes a tour of Historic Fallsington, which is holding its Fallsington Day this weekend.

The 18-mile walk through Trenton and Lower Bucks County along the Delaware Canal and East Coast Greenway goes through Revolutionary battle locations in Trenton, past General Washington's headquarters in Morrisville, through the stagecoach village of Fallsington, where William Penn established the first Quaker meeting in America in 1683, into the nation's largest single-developer town of Levittown that pioneered suburban planning, and all about post-industrial Bristol as it undergoes just its latest economic shift and rebirth.

"We will experience the colonial festival that is Fallsington Day and get to know Robert Morris, perhaps the most undersung of our founding fathers. We will also pass the local hop where the "kids in Bristol were sharp as a pistol," inspiring the 1960s song, 'The Bristol Stomp,' Updike said.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Highlights include:

• Mill Street
• Bristol Wharf
• Radcliffe Street
• Bristol Amish Market
• Delaware Canal
• Falls Township Community Park
• Levittown
• Historic Fallsington
• Summserseat- Morrisville levee
• Trenton skyline
• Old Barracks
• New Jersey Capitol
• Mill Hill Park