Most residents treat the Pennypack Trail as a walking loop and the Huntingdon Pike corridor as an errand run. Kept separate, both are fine. Strung together on a Saturday, they turn into the reason people move here and then never leave.
That stitching is easier this summer than last. A keystone stop on the pike, dark for most of a year, is coming back at the end of June. Here is how the pieces line up, and how to use them without wasting a weekend.
The spine most people forget they have
The Pennypack Trail is longer, better connected, and better provisioned than its reputation suggests.