I finally made it out to Wissahickon Valley Park yesterday to try hiking there. I’ve been meaning to check it out for a while since I heard there was nice hiking and it’s right in Philly. Usually I have to drive an hour or two to get to nice (not flat) hiking so I wasn’t prepared for just how nice it would be there. I was expecting paved or gravel paths for most of it but we were actually on a trail almost the whole time, pretty rocky for most of it, some steep inclines and everything. A few times we popped out onto a road or next to someone’s backyard, but for the most part, there was no indication we were in a city. We didn’t even run into that many people. There is crap for maps online so we bought a $6 trail map from the inn everyone seems to park at and although it had plenty of detail, the detail seemed to be wrong or way off scale for much of the trails we chose. I know there’s a gorge in the park somewhere but it wasn’t indicated on the map and we didn’t come across it. We hiked around the north area of the creek though so it must be in the south. I’ll definitely be going back sometime to check it out.
One of my friends used some iphone app to track where we were and it did a pretty good job. We only hiked about 8 miles or so.
