Blue Bell Park

I parked at this parking lot and went hiking on the Orange Trail of Wissahickon Valley. It’s very well marked and the trail on this side is mostly shady thru woods, while on the other side of the river is mostly a paved road. It’s exciting to hike thru terrains, muddy areas , steep trails, cross a creek bed, explore under highway bridges and see the interesting graffitis. Comparing from the flat lands in my area, I prefer trails with elevation on the mountains in PA.

Absolutely love blue bell - friendly walkers, well kept trail, and scenic views; plus a creek for the dogs to swim!

Blue Bell Park is a clean park with minimal facilities, access to Wissahickon Park hiking trails and parking. On both of our trips to Blue Bell we were only using it for it's parking and access to hiking. The park is large and clean and blends into Wissahickon at the treeline. There is lots of room for dogs to run around (and they usually are) and once we saw a large company picnic being hosted there. There is no playground however. I've included a couple of pictures from the nearby orange trail.

Beautiful park. A friend invited folks out to go for a walk and I am so appreciative. The weather was perfect and the scenery amazing, will be back

Clean, quiet, beautiful park. Great chill trail. Not too hard if you have kids or people with bad knees around. There's water to see and sometimes there are people with their horses. Part of it is a makeshift dog park. No fencing, just well-behaved doggies having fun. There's a picnic pavillion and sometimes a porta-potty (meh). Not far from great food if you wanna grab something and have a picnic. Plenty of benches.