Smedley Park Walk

Friday, May 16, 2025

Take a walk with a Penn State Master Watershed Steward, Stephen Hinds, on a trail along the Crum Creek in Smedley Park. The trail winds through a riparian buffer zone with many native trees and shrubs. This woodland corridor is an important environmental resource which mitigates stormwater runoff,  reduces the potential for floods, purifies the air and improves water quality.  Along the way we will see a live stake native shrub nursery which is also used to mitigate storm water run off and stabilize stream banks.

The tour will take approximately an hour.  The trail is more or less along a level surface but may have some ruts and roots.  If there has been rain, it may be muddy.

We will start the tour at 10am on Friday May 16.  Enter Smedley Park on Paper Mill Road.  On the left hand side you will see a small parking area close to some picnic tables.  We will park and meet in that parking lot for our tour.  This parking lot is before the turn off for the Penn State Extension and the trolley tracks.