Upper Bucks Rail Trail - TrailLink
Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.57980, -75.34447
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| Parking at Water Street Park |
TRAIL MAPS:
Upper Bucks Rail Trail Map - Bucks County (does not show the Highlands Trail)
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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| The trail just ends with this gate on the right. |
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| Heading back. |
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| Passing by the parking lot. |
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| There are several street crossings along the way. |
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| Wagner-Holum Farmstead |
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| All kinds of families on the trail. |
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| At this sign the Saucon Rail Trail ends and the Upper Bucks Rail Trail begins. |
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| Almost at the end I noticed this nature trail on the left. Can't pass by without checking that out. |
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| Turns out it is the Highlands Trail. |
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| There are several downed trees that can be stepped over. |
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| There were also some areas of overgrowth but the trail was easy to follow. |
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| Then the trail follows a pretty creek for quite some time. |
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| At a huge, impassable downed tree a very faint trail went to the left of it and came out here. |
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| 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? |
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| And that is what I did. |
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| Coming back out on the Upper Bucks Rail Trail. |
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| Continuing into Veterans Park and looping around on the bike. |
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| 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. |
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| Heading back. |
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| The end of the Upper Bucks Rail Trail and the start of the Saucon Rail Trail. |
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| Not something you see every day on a rail trail. |
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| Back at the parking lot. |
