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The Power Line Trail is a paved township path that follows a PECO Energy transmission corridor for about five miles across Horsham Township in Montgomery County. It runs from Blair Mill Road northwest past Lukens Park, Sawyer's Way Park, Jarrett Road Park, and Kohler Park to Cedar Hill Road Park, between subdivisions, schools, and the township library. The corridor is a wide mowed swath under the wires, so the path is open and easy to follow, with parking and restrooms at the parks along the way. Grades are gentle, mostly on flat ground or low fill, with a slight overall rise toward the Cedar Hill end. It is a neighborhood trail built for short trips as much as through rides.
Power Line Trail
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-Cory
In a typical year the Power Line Trail has about 115 to 162 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, e-biking, birding, running, biking, and walking, with April, May, and October the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the Power Line Trail peaks October 29 to November 8, typically around November 3. The trail has 33% deciduous coverage, with the majority being white ash, yellow-poplar, sweetgum, red maple, and white oak.
No train ever ran along this trail. The Power Line Trail follows a PECO Energy electric transmission corridor, and the ground beneath it was Horsham farmland well into the twentieth century. The township's 1999 purchase of the Hearne farm along Jarrett Road, 78 acres still in agricultural use, and the Jarrett Nature Center on the old Jarrett family farm show what the corridor crossed. Horsham Township turned to the utility right-of-way as the spine of a township-wide path system. It negotiated permission from PECO to pave a walking trail along the corridor, and by 2005 about 2.4 miles were in place between Dresher Road and Babylon Road, linking Lukens Park to the Hearne property and the new township library. The 2005 open space plan called the corridor a de facto greenway and set a goal of a six mile asphalt trail, 12 feet wide, across the whole township. Montgomery County listed it among its planned regional trails. In 2007 PECO gave the township $10,000 toward connector paths to Simmons Elementary School and the library. Later phases carried the pavement southeast to Blair Mill Road and northwest past Kohler Park to Biwood Road and Cedar Hill Road Park, for six segments totaling about 5.2 miles. Today the trail is part of the Circuit Trails, with extensions planned west to the US 202 Parkway Trail and east to the Pennypack Trail.
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