Neshaminy State Park

Neshaminy State Park is just a nice place to visit, whether it’s for a family picnic/​BBQ, a jog, a stroll with your favorite person, or to exercise your dog. The river is nice on hot days. The wood trails are a little bit adventurous. Of course, the swimming pool and play ground too!

It’s not my favorite park, but it’s close to home… so it works when I’m in a pinch for time. A very kid and pet friendly place. There’s a huge playground, volley ball net, bathrooms, swimming pool (that is open during certain hours, 8 bucks for the day), lots of picnic tables, as well as grilling capabilities. I often see a lot of birthday parties happening when I come here for a walk. The paved path area isn’t very extensive, but if you go in the wooded area, that could keep you occupied for a little while. It’s a pretty clean place.

Neshaminy State Park is one of the best parks, from every thing to cooking out with a bunch of family and freinds to just hanging and bringing your kids to have a fun time strolling thru the park, if it’s eaither biking along or just taking a walk. It’s always fun.
You have the Delaware River right in front of you to some days enjoy the nice breeze or just sit and watch the big size boats come by. Or the play area for the kids to enjoy.
And in the summer time they have a built in size pool that everyone can enjoy for a price $$$$$ but is worth going swimming.
I always enjoy every year they have the Civil War reenactment. which is always fun and so many people show up to enjoy the fun activities.
You appreciate how they keep up with the park and how clean it always is.

So it’s summer and it’s hot and i want to cool off but everyone I know with a pool is on vacation or working. What’s a girl to do? Grab sunscreen, a beach towel, pack a lunch and head up to the pool at Neshaminy State Park! It’s $ 8 to get in for the day and you can bring your own food so it’s super cheap. The pool is divided into 3 sections and it’s big. The grounds are clean and it does get a little crowded but there’s plenty of space. Besides the pool there is a splash area and snack bar. Outside the pool area there are picnic tables and trails to walk around. Great place to bring the dogs for a walk or your love for a picnic!

This is a HUGE park. There are so many places to walk, that every time we go here I find a path I didn’t know about before. Our favorite path follows alongside the river, which can be found to the left of the beach. This is the path I would recommend. There is a neat bench which we refer to as «Wind Bench,» which sits aside the water and faces the city– the wind is super strong because of the water, so this is a great place to sit and cool down.
The beach on the river is a rocky beach, with lots of really good skipping stones, and little waves. This is a nice place to take puppies who are just getting used to a tide, since the waves are very gentle.
There is a nice sized playground, as well as a very large public pool, with fun little spray areas. When we walked around the park yesterday, there were a LOT of people in the pool area, as well as plenty of people taking advantage of the picnic tables and grilling areas.
I haven’t been to this park on a weekend in a long time, but several years ago I remember it being VERY dirty. Since then, they have added a lot more trash cans to accommodate the volume of people, which seems to have helped.
Minus 1 star for the amount of people. It’s a huge park, but even on a Tuesday morning you will be running into people left and right. I prefer quieter parks.
Minus 1 star for the smell. It smells a bit garbagy in the park– this could be due to the amount of trash cans they have to keep up with their guests, and it could also be because of the river making the scent more intense.

Great place for me to forge in run around get in touch with my Native American heritage I love this park is my dogs love it as well we often very corn with fish

Its not a thunderingly-​great outdoor area but it is a nice little recreation spot and place to relax in semi-​natural surroundings. Its safe and mild; you can’t get into trouble here; and there is convenient access to the creek/​stream/​river. Good place for a Sunday picnic. Never crowded. Sunny and tree-​filled; birds/bees.in northeast Philadelphia. What can one reasonably gripe about? If you want more intense wilderness you drive farther to go get that. If you want to be outdoors and still stay local, be thankful for places like this…

My wife and I love it.

Looking for an alternative place to go running, I explored Neshaminy State Park on a beautiful spring Saturday morning. This small state park located just outside of Philadelphia is only about a 25 minute drive up I-​95 from Center City — closer than the Wissahickon. The park features picnic areas, playgrounds, volleyball, and several paved and unpaved trails (see trail map on PA DCNR’s website). There are a few spots with excellent views of the river. For runners or walkers looking for a short quiet, loop of about 2 – 4 miles, this park is a good fit. The trails are wooded and peaceful and, when I was there, virtually empty. For people just looking to spend a nice few leisurely hours on a nice day for a picnic or a stroll, Neshaminy is the right place.

I’m really only able to comment on one small part of this place: the tiny corner of the Delaware where we Special Olympic Polar Bear Plunged. Aside from the park not being able to handle 1,000 plungers and all of the cars they brought with them– it was fun and so was the location.
Yay, Neshaminy!

If you’re looking for actual hiking and a semi-​wilderness experience, this park is a little underwhelming. Parking lots and various other paved surfaces seem to outnumber plants when you pull up. Fortunately, once you walk past the playground, crappy-​state-​park-​y bathrooms, random signposts etc. on the main (paved) path from the parking areas, you reach the Delaware river, where the grassy riverbank area is fairly well preserved (and great for playing fetch if there’s no one around to ding you for having your dog off-​leash in a state park. not that I would ever do that). This was another park found on our dog-​hiking quest and one of the selling points was being able to walk along the river. As promised by the dog-​hiking website, there were lots of river views and a good portion of the trail area ran along the bank of the river. There isn’t any elevation to speak of, so I suppose it’s a little disingenuous to toss this in with «hiking,» but it seems even more inappropriate to toss it in with «parks,» when that category is shared by Rittenhouse and Washington Square…
Anyway, the other big selling point was the intersection of river and saltwater habitats. I can’t speak to that specifically, but there is a large sand dune area that’s well away from the more «developed» part of the park and so a little more off-​leash friendly. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something that a dog loves about being able to bound through sand, getting her nose all covered with grit and tossing dust all over the place. Neshaminy isn’t that far away and little dog really seemed to love it, so we may make a return trip or two (and it’s called Neshaminy. which, face it, is just really fun to say).
Most of the trail area was sort of wooded and forest-​y — basically what you would expect of a river-​bank environment. As such there are TONS of great throwing sticks and again, not that I would ever let my dog off leash in state park territory, if you did want to let your dog off leash and play some fetch you’ll have plenty of tossing material.
I mention the state park off-​leash standard, but I will also say this: ranger-​who-​shall-​not-​be-​named sort of gave us the wink wink on the off leash thing as far as s/​he was concerned. S/​he didn’t speak for the other rangers, but we got the impression that as long as you’re not around people who will complain/​are annoyed by your dog’s doggy antics, you probably won’t be cited.