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The U.S. 202 Parkway Trail is a paved sidepath built with the Route 202 Parkway, running about eight and a half miles between the Doylestown trail system in Bucks County and Welsh Road in Montgomery Township near Montgomeryville. A twelve foot wide asphalt path parallels the two lane parkway the whole way, set back from traffic by grass strips and split rail fences. The ride is rolling suburban and farm country rather than a rail grade: short rises and dips, a gentle net climb southbound, and a handful of signalized crossings where the path switches sides of the road. The Montgomery Mall area and Doylestown bracket the ends with food and parking.
U.S. 202 Parkway Trail
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In a typical year the U.S. 202 Parkway Trail has about 117 to 162 days of excellent weather for popular activities such as hiking, dog walking, e-biking, running, birding, biking, and walking, with April, May, and October the best months.
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In half of past years, color along the U.S. 202 Parkway Trail peaks October 26 to November 6, typically around November 1. The trail has 35% deciduous coverage, with the majority being white ash, yellow-poplar, red maple, white oak, and black walnut.
The road beside this trail began as the Piedmont Expressway, a 59-mile freeway proposed in 1964 as an outer beltway for Philadelphia. The state priced it at $146 million. It never got built. Bucks County towns such as Buckingham and Solebury fought the Doylestown to New Hope end of the route for decades, and funding for the whole corridor came and went. By the early 2000s only the Montgomeryville to Doylestown piece, known as Section 700, was still alive. On February 16, 2005, the state announced a smaller answer: a two-lane parkway costing $161 million instead of a four-lane expressway. That September, Governor Rendell restarted land purchases for it. Ground was broken on November 21, 2008, for a project that was fully state funded at $200 million. Construction started with the section between Welsh Road and Route 463, then extended north to Route 611 in January 2010. The design carried a twelve-foot-wide bicycle and walking path the full length of the road, with landscaping and split rail fences between path and pavement. The parkway and the U.S. 202 Parkway Trail opened together on December 3, 2012, and the road was named Pennsylvania's 20th Scenic Byway the same day. Since then, the trail has become part of the Circuit Trails network, linking to the Doylestown Community Bike and Hike System at its north end, with connections to the Power Line Trail and the Neshaminy Creek Trail still planned.
Doylestown Community Bike and Hike System
