Hiking in Pennsylvania, With Some Helpful Pocket Guides

by KYW's Lauren Lipton

If you're looking for some extra summer fun, how about a trip to the Pennsylvania Highlands? 

Wait a minute, the Pennsylvania Highlands?

"The Pennsylvania Highlands are beautiful, and most people don't even realize they're there."

That's Jennifer Heisey, with the Appalachian Mountain Club, Mid-Atlantic Division.  They're offering a new series of pocket-sized hiking cards, and they're free:

"We have highlighted in a series of hiking cards 22 different places, all within easy reach of the Philadelphia area."

Some examples:

"In Montgomery County, I would suggest going on the Perkiomen Green Lane Park, Central Valley Perkiomen Park. They also have some other little historic parks right off the trail."

In Bucks County:

"Go up to Ralph Stover State Park, close to the Delaware River, north of Doylestown, and there's a great scenic view up on high rocks looking down at the river."

The cards are called "Hike the Highlands."

"In Chester County, I would suggest Hibernia County Park.  It's really close to Philadelphia.  A lot of hiking, boating.  You can do fishing, you can camp there."

A scavenger hunt adds some fun -- and you can't cheat.

"You have to go to the site and find the answer there.  We made them so you cannot find them online."

For more information, go to www.outdoors.org/conservation/wherewework/highlands/hikehighlands.

And that's Positively Philadelphia!