trails

Enriching lives through quality open space, parks, and recreation.

A Distinctive Sense

of Place and Community!

Recreational trails provide unique exercise and transportation opportunities, preserve critical open space, create natural corridors for wildlife, and enhance the communities through which they pass. The Stroud Region’s Levee Loop Trail offers a safe place to walk, jog, run, bike, skate, and stroll while enjoying the renowned beauty that defines our area.

The Levee Loop Trail connects several community parks to produce a large regional park providing a distinctive sense of pride. Besides an excellent leisure outlet, the Trail at its full length will provide a convenient link to the downtowns through a beautiful creek valley.

Trails are highly desirable destinations for an increasing number of residents and tourists. Trail users need food, lodging, special clothes, shoes and equipment for running, hiking, biking, skating or skiing. Many of them even buy souvenirs and other items during their trip.

A major economic study of three rail-trails conducted by the National Park Service found that the total economic benefit for each of the three trails ranged from $1.2 million to $1.8 million per year. The study concluded that communities that have responded to trail users have profited greatly.

By preserving the Brodhead and McMichael Greenway through the development of the Levee Loop Trail, the Stroud Region presents an extraordinary park for generations to enjoy. No matter what the season, everyone can find a special place here.

Whether drinking in the beauty of the summer wildflowers, marveling at nature’s awesome beauty in the fall, hearing the new-fallen snow crunching underfoot in the winter or listening to the chirping of delighted birds in the spring... the Levee Loop Trail is a cherished community asset!

The Levee Loop Trail encircles a segment of the Brodhead and McMichael Creeks and extends through the densely developed sections of Stroudsburg, East Stroudsburg, and Stroud Township.

The proposed Trail runs on both sides of the Brodhead Creek from Glen Park, on the top of the levee, to the Stroudsburg Municipal Authority. The Levee Loop will connect several municipal parks with an estimated ten miles of trails.

The Levee Loop Trail will be accessible to residents and tourists alike for passive recreation, and will become an important community asset for Stroud Region. It is the next important step, after land acquisition, to the development of the Brodhead and McMichael’s Greenways.

Through municipal funding provided to the Commission and a PA Department of Conservation & Natural Recourses Keystone Grant, $50,000 was secured to develop a master design plan for the trail system, which was completed by Buchart Horn Inc. Engineering in 2005.

To begin construction of the trail project, the Commission has received an additional grant through the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to complete the design and construction of a trailhead and overlook at Dansbury Park. The work in this project will include the construction of a trailhead, access road, parking lot, ADA ramps, and sitting areas along the Brodhead Creek levee system.

The Dansbury Park Trailhead and sitting area will function as an access point for the municipal trail system, provide additional parking to the most-used park in the Region, and create a scenic vista of the park, creek corridor, boroughs, and township.

Click here for a map of the proposed complete Levee Loop Trail system. Click here for a look at the Levee Loop Trail Master Plan.