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getting around
BiKES & BiKinG
POINTS OF INTEREST: The shell of the Divine Lorraine
hotel on Broad Street, the brisk pace of pedalpushing
through the ghetto, Sugar Stick bar, the gable
roof of a storefront church painted onto a row house
front, Cliveden, the site of the battle of Germantown,
Germantown’s town square and its war monument,
North by Northwest in Mt. Airy, a circa-1960s addition
to a branch of the Free Library, a classic diner,
Chestnut Hill shopping district, Morris Arboretum
(owned by Penn), Chestnut Hill College, horse stables,
Forbidden Drive (once a major thoroughfare into the
city but closed to preserve its water supply), the Wissahickon
Creek viewed from high above, and Tommy
Gunn’s American Barbecue.
DIRECTIONS: Go east on Chestnut to Broad Street,
then go north on Broad to Germantown Avenue. Follow
the full length of Germantown beyond Chestnut
Hill. Turn left on W Northwestern Avenue, pass the
horse stables, then turn left on Forbidden Drive, following
its full length to the falls of the Wissahickon
near Tommy Gunn’s. Connect to ride #2.
Ride 2 SChUYLKiLL RiVER PARK to
mAnAYUnK
POINTS OF INTEREST: the bike path itself, including
joggers, the Cira Center and its light show, the Philadelphia
Art Museum, the Fairmount Water Works,
Boat House Row, the tunnel of schist, bridges of steel,
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stone, and concrete (engineering is cool), Laurel Hill
Cemetery, the Wissahickon waterfall, Tommy Gunn’s,
Main Street Manayunk, Venture Scott Brown’s storefront
windows, and the used CD table at Main Street
Music (the end of the ride).
DIRECTIONS: The Schuylkill River Park begins where
Locust Street meets the river in Center City. Follow
the path upriver until it (and Kelly Drive) end near
the Wissahickon waterfall (Tommy Gunn’s delicious
Oklahoma Corn Salad is served here, across from the
bus terminal on Ridge Avenue). Bear left to Main
Street Manayunk (you’ll see the big sign overhead),
and end below the concrete arch rail bridge spanning
Main Street.
Ride 3 PEnnYPACK PARK
This ride requires a car to reach the entrance to the
park, or you could pack your bike onto SEPTA’s R7
and take it from 30th Steet to Holmesburg Junction.
The bike path is about eight miles one-way and crosses
the picturesque Pennypack Creek numerous times.
POINTS OF INTEREST: I-95 billboards, the city
skyline, the hundred year-old Holmesburg Prison,
the ups and downs and bridges of the Pennypack bike
path, thick woods, a rocky creek, massive concrete arch
bridges, and a seemingly whole other world beyond
the confines of the laser cutter room.
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