Lower Bucks Loop Walk (casual tour of Bristol, Fairless Hills, Levittown)

Come join us on a lazy summer walk and bring your appetite for some local favorites.

Start: Levittown Station

Finish: Levittown Station

Distance: 4-17mi

Optional endpoints: Bristol (4mi)

Mini: Bristol (4mi)

Terrain: paved, gravel, wooded trail

Transit: Septa rail or 127 bus

Parking: $2 at station or free at nearby shopping center

Difficulty: Average

Category: nature, history, urban

Coordinator: Charles Updike

A slow-paced walks through parks, suburban neighborhoods, trails and waterways, with food stops for Pennsylvania Dutch offerings, Philly water ice and Trenton-style tomato pie.

Highlights:

• Delaware Canal
• Bristol Amish Market
• Spurline Trail
• Bristol Wharf
• Silver Lake
• Queen Anne Creek
• Levittown
• Fairless Hills
• Lake Caroline
• Falls Township Community Park
• many parks and neighborhoods
• great food stops

This walk is part of the 2026 celebration of the Delaware River Heritage Trail. Join us as we walk the trail on these dates:

May 2: Turnpike Gap Challenge, Bristol to Burlington

Aug 15: Delaware River Heritage Trail Loop Walk

(Philadelphia, Camden, Pennsauken, Palmyra, Tacony, Port Richmond)

Aug 29: Lower Bucks Loop Walk, Levittown to Bristol, Fairless Hills

Sep 5: Roebling Ramble, Roebling to Trenton

Sep 26: Burlington Heritage Trail Walk, Burlington to Palmyra

Oct 3: 17.76 mile Heritage Trail Freedom Walk, Philly and Camden

Oct 17: Bristol Stomp, Bristol to Trenton

Partners:

The Delaware River Heritage Trail is a scenic multi-use pathway loop highlighting the cultural and natural resources along the upper portion of the scenic Delaware River estuary, linking dozens of communities from Trenton and Morrisville to Philadephia and Camden, connecting active travellers to parks, canals, waterfront views, and colonial and industrial history.

The East Coast Greenway Alliance is a non-profit organization developing a public multi-use 3,000 mile trail from Canada to Key West through New Jersey and New York. Donations and memberships help make this dream trail a reality.

Circuit Trails is 800 miles of interconnected trails in Greater Philadelphia in the making, already one of America's largest trail networks. Once connected, the Circuit Trails will be one of the nation's premier urban trail networks and it will provide multiple benefits to neighborhoods, communities and the region as a whole.

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