The fourth annual Runnin' on the River, the only  Schuylkill River Park Trail 5K and Fun Run for kids was an unqualified success on Saturday, September 26, 2009  The overall results are in!  We congratulate Matt Hoelle for a new course record of 16:15.  Matt was followed by Kai Syvertsen (17.55) and Isaac Erickson (18:07).  The first woman over the finish line was Jesse Carlin (18:22), followed by Tina Morrison (18:37) and Molly Gallagher (20:51).  Congratulations to all finishers!

The Fun Run had 20 children participating!  Congratulations to all runners!  The Fun Run results are here.

This event benefits the Schuylkill River Park Alliance in its effort to Complete The Trail making the Schuylkill River Trail the region's first Green Transportation & Recreation Corridor. Our other main activity is to monitor the installation of safe street level access to the Schuylkill River Park Trail and the construction of the Schuylkill River Parks Connector Bridge to promote a safe environment for all park users.

Schuylkill River Development Corporation has unveiled the conceptual design of the boardwalk it plans to build between Locust Street and the South Street Bridge.  The slide show presented on November 17th is available here (3.2 MB pdf)

The boardwalk will be 50 feet out in the river to avoid the tree canopies that are along the embankment.  It will connect to the South Street Bridge ramp (north side of bridge) and also connect to the river bank just south of a set of stairs being built from the Bridge on the south side of bridge.

The boardwalk will be a concrete surface, 15 feet wide and 4-9 feet high from the water (depending on the tide).   

SRDC has $4 million of the $10 million construction cost identified and needs $6 million to complete the entire project.

Any comments on this design can be sent to erin.bolz@srdc.net

Our Halloween Parade is rescheduled due to rain for Sunday, September 25, 2009 See flyer. Last year's Parade was a huge success.  We had the biggest spooky crowd ever!  Many thanks to everyone who came, strutted their costumes and paraded down the trail!  We also thank Mark Focht, Executive Director of Fairmount Park to judging along with Alex Doty and Kevin Gruenfeld.  see photos in our photo album to right or here if you want to download them.

11am-3pm at 26th and Pine

(Rain Date is October 18)

Kids Games and Crafts, Live Music, DJ/Dancing, Bake Sale, Pet MicroChipping & Photos, Moon Bounce, Raffle Prizes

Sponsored by Friends of Schuylkill River Park 

See slide show and drawings of the proposed design treatment of the connector bridge here.

 Hundreds (hundreds!!!) of you came out on April 5th, a beautiful Saturday morning,  to participate in Mayor Nutter's first City wide Philly Spring Clean Up at the Schuylkill River Park Trail on Schuylkill Banks. It was the biggest clean up ever and hundreds of bags of trash were collected from the running/bike path, river banks and all around the park.  MANY THANKS to all of who came and pitch in to helped do such a massive job.  Special thanks to the Streets Department for coming back to pick up every last bag, to Fairmount Park for helping organize our site, and to our partners SRDC and Friends of Schuylkill River Park for everything they did to make this entire event a great success.  The park looks fantastic and Schuylkill River Park Alliance thanks everyone who expressed such civic pride for Philadelphia and the Schuylkill River Park Trail.  You can see photos taken during the morning on our Picasa site here or click on our photo albums to the right.