These Boots Were Made For Walking

From the BCCT. Go take a hike with the Friends of the Delaware Canal. The Morrisville leg of the walk is on Saturday, October 25, from the waterworks to Bristol.

Walks along canal begin Saturday

By DANNY ADLER

One step at a time, the Friends of the Delaware Canal and others will walk about 32.5 miles of the Delaware Canal trail this month.

They’ll meet up four Saturdays in a row for the 21st annual Canal Walk, which starts this week and will cover more than half of the 60-mile towpath trail.

Normally, the annual walk covers the entire length of the historic waterway, but repair work in numerous sections of the canal will limit the trek this year to 32.5 miles.

The walk gives participants a chance to learn about the canal’s past — and future — while taking in the autumn scenery along the canal and Delaware River corridor. Susan Taylor, executive director of the group, local historians and conservationists will show where mule-drawn boats once transported coal and other goods while pointing out the significant historical and environmental areas along the route.

The walks, which are free and open to the public, begin at 9 a.m. each of the following Saturdays.

• This Saturday: a 9-mile walk begins at the Delaware Canal State Park office complex in Upper Black Eddy and ends in Point Pleasant.

• Oct. 11: A 5-mile trek from the Virginia Forrest Recreation Area north of Centre Bridge in Solebury to Odette’s Restaurant in New Hope.

• Oct. 18: 8 miles from Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve in Upper Makefield to the Afton Avenue aqueduct in Yardley.

• Oct. 25: 10 miles from the Morrisville waterworks complex on Delmorr Avenue to Bristol’s Lions Park.

For more info, call 215-862-2021, e-mail friends@fodc.org or visit www.fodc.org. The Friends of the Delaware Canal is a nonprofit organization working to preserve and improve the canal and its surroundings.

September 30, 2008 1:21 PM