Friday, August 21, 2026

Saucon and Upper Bucks Rail Trails, PA with the Highlands Trail

ABOUT THE PARKS: 
Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network

DIRECTIONS: 
GPS Coordinates 40.57980, -75.34447 
Parking at Water Street Park

TRAIL MAPS:
Upper Bucks Rail Trail Map - Bucks County (does not show the Highlands Trail)
Highlands Trail Spur from Richland Township Parks and Recreation Facebook Page


DISTANCES:     
Bike - 22.6 miles
Hike - 2 miles

Biked together with Jordan Creek Greenway Trail - 7.2 miles

THE BIKE AND HIKE: 
There was no hike planned because I was not aware of any trails along the way.  It was a big surprise to run into this spur of the Highlands Tail.
The Saucon Rail Trail runs along the parking lot.  Heading to the left first to capture a short section to that end of the trail.
The trail just ends with this gate on the right.
Heading back.
Passing by the parking lot.
There are several street crossings along the way.
Wagner-Holum Farmstead
All kinds of families on the trail.
At this sign the Saucon Rail Trail ends and the Upper Bucks Rail Trail begins.
Almost at the end I noticed this nature trail on the left.  Can't pass by without checking that out.
Turns out it is the Highlands Trail.
There are several downed trees that can be stepped over.
There were also some areas of overgrowth but the trail was easy to follow.
Then the trail follows a pretty creek for quite some time.
At a huge, impassable downed tree a very faint trail went to the left of it and came out here.
Seems the trail continued through that downed tree and would have stayed in the woods coming out to the right of that building.  I could have continued, turned right on the road and walked through Veterans Park to make a loop by why when I could go back through the woods?
And that is what I did.
Coming back out on the Upper Bucks Rail Trail.
Continuing into Veterans Park and looping around on the bike.
According to the Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network the Highlands Trail runs the entire length of the Saucon and Upper Bucks Rail Trails but this is the only marker I saw other than the spur though the woods.
Heading back.
The end of the Upper Bucks Rail Trail and the start of the Saucon Rail Trail.
Not something you see every day on a rail trail.
Back at the parking lot.
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Jordan Creek Greenway, PA - Lehigh County Section

ABOUT THE PARK: 
Jordan Creek Parkway - Lehigh County
Jordan Creek Greenway - The Link Trail Network

DIRECTIONS: 
GPS Coordinates 40.61885, -75.47739
Jordan Park Parking (There is a much larger lot to the left from the entrance.)

TRAIL MAP: 


DISTANCES:     
Jordan Creek Greenway Trail - 7.2 miles

Bike - 22.6 miles
Hike - 2 miles

THE BIKE: 
From where I parked straight to the trail along Jordan Creek then left.
The path soon comes up on this very busy road crossing where you turn right ...
... on the bridge ...
... over Jordan Creek.
Crossing left on the crosswalk (no pedestrian lights, just traffic lights) ...
... the right back on to the path just before the other side of the bridge.
From here the path will become more remote.
A whole network of mountain bike trails along the way.  I would be coming down off of this one later, walking the bike not riding.  I'd break my neck for sure riding mountain bike trails.
Jordan Creek Community Garden
Through Jordan Creek Parkway ...
... where the trail ends.  There is a disconnected completed section farther west but eventually the trail is supposed to go all the way to Trexler Nature Preserve.
Heading back.
I took one of the ridable-for-me mountain bike trails to the left ...
... then walked the bike on a single track trail to the right along Jordan Creek.
This took me back to the greenway trail.
Back through that intersection.
Going back through Jordan Park I passed where I had parked and continued on to ...
... the crossing at Sumner Avenue.  From here it's on roads for a distance to a short stretch of greenway along Jordan Meadows so I decided it wasn't worth it and turned back.
Back to where I parked up ahead on the left.
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