I was cruising the Terraserver (another post gave me the idea) and pinpointed my main riding area of the past 20 yrs via Satalite photo. The regular camera photos I attached as well were posted here last year before I sold my 250X.
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The first photo is of the Northeast portion of the area. You can see the Neshaminy Creek running through the center of the photo. The fields to the north of the creek are fallow and are great for wide open riding. What looks like two straight roads south of the creek are really rail lines. The top one is an old coal rail road bed thats now really an access road and is all blue stone gravel with lots of whoops. The bottom one is a modern high speed freight and passenger line that runs down to Philly. In between the creek and the high speed line are the main riding area(s) with the old rail line deviding the center. It consists of heavy woods trails and bowls with a few "open" areas thrown in. To the center right of the picture (just above the golf course) is the main "parking/meeting/show off" area. To the right of it next to the edge of the picture is the first "bowl area". The riding starts here and goes south between the two rail lines. Past the parking area is a hill that goes down into a stream crossing and mud bog area. Leading out of there are a series of trails that criss cross trough the woods and lead to the second bowl area and creek which is the area of dark trees near the bottom left corner of the picture. There are the remains of an old homestead here and this whole area is one of the first places in the USA that was settled. There are houses here that date back to early 1600's. There are a series of tall and very steep hill climbs here that lead up to the highspeed rail line (which is elevated on the hill). As you climb back out of the bowl, you end up in a second "open" type area that used to be an MX race track/practice area back in the day, this is the very bottom left corner of the picture. North of the parking area, between the creek and the old railroad are a series of tight technical trails that run parallel to the creek. Across the Railroad bed from the MX track in the woods is a newer "trials" type course that Mt. Bikers and motorcycles use.
The second photo
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This shows the riding area from the MX track area and south. The trails above this area between the old railroad bed and the creek continue south through THICK brush. The fallow open fields riding to the north of the creek end here near a day camp and you have to cross back across the creek through the shallows. There is a second track area near the center of the photo and right past that where the woods gets thick again is a steep hill and the third bowl area and stream. As you climb out of the bowl, there are the remains of an old colonial dirt road (that you can clearly see in the picture) that connects the two rail lines and also runs through the woods parrallel to the two rail beds. There are criss crossing trails off of this that hop another stream and pass the ruins of another old homestead that has a cool "potato" cellar.
The third photo
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This photo shows the end of the riding area where the Neshaminy Creek cuts across it and where Playwicky State Park lays in the "elbow" of the creek (riding off limits!). The creek trails end here too and connect back up to the old colonial road and center rail trails through an old access tunnel that runns under the old coal rail line road bed. You can cross the ancient old rail tressle of the rail road bed that spans high above the creek and continue south to some other trails, but this is the end of the main ride area. The circuit through the woods here was the site of quite a few local "Hare Scrambles" back in the 80's and early 90's that were sponsored by the AMA and a local motor cycle shop, Bromley's - but the rail road and park ganged up on them and put an end to it. Bromley's team used to use the MX track as their practice place as well.
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