Valley Green Parking Lot to Close for Summer

Parking at the Upper Valley Green Parking Lot on Valley Green Road will be limited for the rest of the week until the lot closes for the remainder of the summer on July 1.

According to the Friends of the Wissahickon, the lots will close to accommodate a project that will improve the quality of the water in the creek.

The project aims to have the creek meet Environmental Protection Agency standards for sedimentation, improve parking conditions and restore native vegetation. 

“The project will involve stabilizing 350 feet of stream adjacent to the parking area by installing rock steps designed to dissipate high energy storm flows, resurfacing/restriping the parking lot, repairing broken wheel stops, and replacing invasive plant species with natives,” Friends of the Wissahickon said in a press release.

The release continues: “This project is being done in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Philadelphia Water Department as part of the Wissahickon Stormwater Mitigation and Sediment Reduction Project, a collaborative effort to reduce erosion and the loss of forest habitat park-wide.”

The parking lot is set to reopen on October 1.