Upper Roxborough

We know that this is a lack of a fishing opportunity.

The PFBC wants to hear from anglers about this and is planning a public meeting in Upper Roxborough next month.

We wanna hear from you to see if we can come up with some options to, to make sure we know where everybody is and hopefully move forward with our trout stocking, uh, practices as the anglers would like.

The meeting will be held on November 5th from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education at 8480 Hagges Mill Road.

Some call it Andorra or Shawmont Valley.

Many locals simply tell people they live in Upper Roxborough.

Whatever one calls it, the land is a swath of roughly seven hundred rural acres boxed in by a Roxborough roadway where the city's manifest destiny seems to have curled up and died.

In the late eighteen hundreds, it was intended to be the next Chestnut Hill, but the landscape, littered with steep ravines, proved too tricky for train lines.

It's one of the nation's first urban preserves of its kind and the largest privately held open space in Philadelphia.

Consult historical maps and the area looks little changed from centuries ago.

In a nineteen eighty-three Enquirer article detailing city plans to purchase and protect open space, a city planner noted that Upper Roxborough was one of the few sections of the city that had experienced population growth over the prior decade.

More than eighty acres had been lost to residential development.

Some call it Andorra or Shawmount Valley.

Many locals simply tell people they live in Upper Roxborough.

Whatever one calls it, the land is a swath of roughly 700 rural acres boxed in by a Roxborough roadway where the city's manifest destiny seems to have curled up and died.

In the late 1800s, it was intended to be the next Chestnut Hill, but the landscape, littered with steep ravines, proved too tricky for train lines.

It's one of the nation's first urban preserves of its kind, and the largest privately held open space in Philadelphia.

Consult historical maps, and the area looks little changed from centuries ago.

In a 1983 Inquirer article detailing city plans to purchase and protect open space, a city planner noted that Upper Roxborough was one of the few sections of the city that had experienced population growth over the prior decade.

More than 80 acres had been lost to residential development.

And it may soon become a museum.

Okay, so this is the Shawmont train station in Upper Roxborough.

Mm-hmm.

Right by the Schuylkill River Trail.