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The Skippack Trail is a paved connector in Skippack Township, Montgomery County, linking Evansburg State Park at Thompson Road to the Perkiomen Trail near Graterford. It runs a little over three miles through open township land, past Palmer Park, and along Creamery Road, and it was built in two segments. Most of the way is open to the sky, with a short stretch beside Perkiomen Creek at the western end. The grade is gentle, dropping about 150 feet from the state park end to the creek, with a few short pitches of a couple percent. Spurs from Palmer Park lead north to the shops of Skippack Village.
Skippack Trail
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-Cory
In a typical year the Skippack Trail has about 119 to 164 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, birding, e-biking, running, biking, and walking, with April, May, and October the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the Skippack Trail peaks October 24 to November 7, typically around October 31. The trail has 34% deciduous coverage, with the majority being yellow-poplar, red maple, white oak, white ash, chestnut oak, black walnut, and sugar maple.
William Penn bought this stretch of the Skippack valley from the Lenape in 1684, and Mennonite families fleeing persecution in Europe were the first to settle it. They cleared the old-growth forest, farmed, and built mills on Skippack Creek. Kuster Mill went up in 1702 and still stands. In 1714 the settlers laid out Skippack Pike to reach the Philadelphia markets, and the township stayed farm country until the Second World War. The Skippack Trail was never a railroad. The rails ran along the Perkiomen Creek to the west, where the Reading Railroad's Perkiomen Line became the Perkiomen Trail. The state bought 3,349 acres along Skippack Creek with Project 70 bond money and opened Evansburg State Park in 1979 to keep the area rural. Skippack Township later built a paved multi-use path in two segments to tie the state park to the Perkiomen Trail at Graterford, with a spur through Palmer Park to Skippack Village. The trail is now part of the regional Circuit Trails network.
Perkiomen TrailSkippack Village TrailEvansburg State Park trails
