Schuylkill River Trail (Pottstown)
Schuylkill River Trail in Pottstown offers a wheelchair accessible hiking trail that is flat and moderately easy, suitable for kids and dog-friendly. The trail features paved paths making it good for biking as well, though some areas have urban views including warehouses and a few trash spots. There has been some past concern about homelessness near the trailhead, but cleanup efforts have improved the area. Parking is available on quiet streets nearby.
Reviews
Terrible “trail” (more like a paved sidewalk). Too urban and not much nature. River and riverbanks were full of trash. Homeless camp existed next to the river where I parked. It felt dangerous.
I’m not going to give up on this trail completely—maybe other parts are fine—but I’m definitely never coming back to this area.
Nice trail
It’s a shame there’s a lot of trash/garbage piled up in areas along the path
Pretty flat, paved (which is great for my bike but I understand why people wouldn’t like walking on it) compared to the crushed rock beyond the grosstown trailhead. The scenery is pretty bad, with abandoned plants/warehouses right next to the trail and a shopping cart marking a path that connects to a homeless encampment. In terms of homeless belongings and trash, the trail has been cleaned up very well compared to its condition when I first traversed this particular section march 29th of this year. There is still one homeless encampment (the one I mentioned earlier in this review) connected to the trail, but I am positively sure that it is abandoned, and I have not seen any homeless people with my firsthand experience on the trail this entire summer. I will not lie, when I first biked the trail in March it was a scary experience (I counted 15 shopping carts), but the homelessness committees have done a great job cleaning up the trail and moving the main active encampment to an area next to college drive, which is still fairly close but no longer in the woods next to the trail. I would still recommend biking with a friend just to be safe.
Just an fyi, the trail is absolutely beautiful at the grosstown trailhead and beyond westward. The grosstown trailhead is only a mile away and has parking that is a lot closer to the trail
Nice parking on quiet street
Nice Trail great scenery, so many great views, very long and very fun trail. Pretty flat and moderately easy. Pretty safe, haven’t seen any guns, dead bodies, weapons, bigfoots, lake monsters, river monsters, trail monsters, Austin Matthews, or murders. Loved it