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Core Creek Park

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  3. …Philadelphia and Southeastern PA
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“Seven miles of flowing roots, bridges, logovers, and more. All easily connected for a day of fun. ”

Sean Callan
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8.4

Miles

13.6

KM

90%

Singletrack

181' 55 m

High

62' 19 m

Low

406' 124 m

Up

404' 123 m

Down

2%

Avg Grade (1°)

18%

Max Grade (10°)

Dogs Leashed

E-Bikes Unknown

Also used by hikers and runners so please be courteous and aware of your surroundings at all times please.

Overview

The majority is all tight singletrack with only the use of a fireroad here or there to connect the trails, or add some mileage. There is no right or wrong way of going as it all flows together nicely for a great ride.

Need to Know

The Core Creek Trail - Northeast Loop to the north of the tennis courts is marked with a white blaze, and the loop to south is marked with a red blaze. The blaze consists of a small red or white square piece of plastic nailed to the tree.
At the Duchess parking lot there is a bike repair stand with allen wrenches, screwdrivers, wrenches, tire levers and a pump.

Description

Park at the lot off Duchess and the trailhead right off the SW corner of the lot. Then stick left at the opening and cross over Park Ave. Keep right down the hill and back up hang a left on the fireroad around the gate and then right onto Lower Brokeback. This is about 1.2 mile trail that will loop back around on itself.

A few bridges and a ton of roots will meet you across the bridge. Eventually across another fire road and up a the hardest climb in the park. Another fire road at the top of the climb and hang left down the fire-road for about 0.25 of a mile, hang right stay straight, then as the tree cover increases look for the right of singletrack.

The trail now follows the bank of Lake Luxomborg up a six-foot hill, and eventually keeping left along the Lake.

History & Background

Just an all-around gorgeous park!

Contacts

Land Manager: PA DCNR - Main Office

Shared By:

Sean Callan with improvements by Levi Salmon
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  3.9 from 28 votes

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Just another day in the office at Core Creek Park
Oct 4, 2014 near Woodbourne, PA
Fallen tree a top the J Loop
Oct 4, 2014 near Woodbourne, PA
Did someone think this downed tree was a technical feature? Looks like it's been here a while.
Nov 27, 2020 near Langhorne, PA

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May 4, 2024
Linda Zhou
5.5mi — 0h 25m
Dec 4, 2022
Levi Salmon
6mi
Sep 21, 2021
Ryan Fasulkey
Nov 26, 2020
Matthew Nguyen
The trail was pretty clear when we went here in October. If you want to check out a video of the trail go tohttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVsPYVw5G 6mi — 2h 30m
Nov 17, 2020
Daniel Landgraf
Pretty tame trail that with some minor features. 10.4mi
Oct 10, 2020
Ted P
8.5mi
Oct 7, 2020
Michael Joseph
Sep 24, 2020
Grace C

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