It passes through a residential neighborhood and arrives at Bala Cynwyd Park in 0.5 mile.Ĭrossing under Belmont Avenue, you’ll pass the historical site of the Barmouth station on the left and the 187-acre West Laurel Hill Cemetery on the right, where notable figures from the 19th and 20th centuries are buried. Starting at SEPTA’s Cynwyd station, you’ll find a small coffee shop and restrooms. A gravel footpath parallels the asphalt trail at various points, where you will find benches and Adirondack chairs overlooking the river. Interpretive signs tell about the cemeteries, former train stations (Cynwyd and Barmouth), and an old cotton mill along the route. A connection to another trail that crosses the river, the Pencoyd Trail, was in the planning stages in 2019.
The Cynwyd Heritage Trail connects with the Manayunk Bridge Trail that crosses the Schuylkill River to Philadelphia’s trendy Manayunk neighborhood. SEPTA leased the section to Lower Merion Township, which created the paved rail-trail in 2011. SEPTA took over the commuter line in 1983 but closed the segment north of the Cynwyd station in 1986.
The trail traces the former route of Pennsylvania Railroad’s Schuylkill Branch, which ran from Philadelphia to Norristown beginning in 1884. The trail takes its name from the Bala Cynwyd community, which was settled by Welsh Quakers who named the area for villages they left behind in Wales in the late 1600s. Though only 1.8 miles long, the trail is part of the Circuit Trails, a developing 800-mile urban network of trails in Greater Philadelphia, of which about 350 miles are currently complete. The Cynwyd Heritage Trail connects the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA’s) Cyn-wyd Station to Bala Cynwyd Park, the historic West Laurel Hill Cemetery, and Westminster Cemetery, as well as a pedestrian bridge across the Schuylkill River.
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