Improvements Made Along Montco's Parts Of Schuylkill River Trail

The Montgomery County portion of the Schuylkill River Trail is complete, but officials are still tackling areas with room for improvement.

Construction crews have recently been at work on stretches of popular multi-use trail in Plymouth Township and Conshohocken, working on widening the trail, installing a new trail surface, and improving the signage and markings near five different road crossings. Crews made the trail as wide as 12 feet, where possible.

In 2018, more than five and a half miles of the trail have been repaved.

Currently, the trail runs uninterrupted from the Schuylkill Banks in Philadelphia to Parker Ford in East Coventry, Chester County. Many of those intervening miles run through Montgomery County, from the edge of Manayunk until the trail crosses the bridge over the river from Mont Clare into Phoenixville.

A few miles farther along, in Parker Ford, the trail is currently in the "to be constructed phase" for a stretch that leads up into Pottstown. Construction projects are currently underway in the Pottstown area to extend the trail.

The trail continues intermittently - stretches are still in the planning phase - to Reading and Port Clinton, where it connects with the Appalachian Trail. It terminates in Pottsville.

Image via Montgomery County Planning Commission