Heading north, the next link in this greenway system is Forbidden Drive. See this trail's entry elsewhere on this database for more info.

in Manayunk north to Rittenhouse Historic Village. The southernmost of these is the Lincoln Drive Trail, which extends from Ridge Ave. A series of multi-use trails follows the banks of the creek, extending through the heart of Northwest Philly.

The lush forests are home to a wide variety of wildlife and the serenity of the park gives one the feeling that they are far outside one of the nation's major cities. More than a century later, the Wissahickon Valley is considered a vital part of Philadelphia's park system. The transition from industrial zone to parkland was completed in 1920, when city officials agreed to close a road that ran through the valley to then-new automobile traffic. The land subsequently reverted to forested open space and was incorporated into Philly's growing park system. The section of the valley in Northwest Philly was the city's original industrial area, being home to numerous mills from the city's earliest days in the late 1600's until the late 1800's, when officials began buying up this land to preserve the quality of the Schuylkill River, which supplied most of the city's drinking water. A tributary of the Schuylkill River, the Wissahickon Creek carves a lush, forested ribbon through the bustling urban and suburban areas of SE PA.

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