Parks and Open Space
Parks & Open Space
Molasses Creek Park
2075 Krammes Road
Quakertown, PA 18951
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Tucked alongside John Fries Highway yet surrounded by peaceful woods, Molasses Creek Park truly earns its title as a hidden gem. Visitors can explore scenic trails and walking paths, challenge themselves on the outdoor exercise stations, or enjoy a full lineup of recreation activities including soccer fields, basketball courts, a climbing wall, and beach volleyball. Families will find play areas for all ages, a picnic pavilion, and seasonal restrooms for convenience.
History and nature both have a place here. The park features a war memorial honoring local service members, horseshoe pits (bring your own shoes), and a growing butterfly garden designed to support pollinators and offer a quiet spot to relax. In 2025, we proudly added a brand-new splash pad funded largely through grant support. This gives children a refreshing way to cool off in the summer months.
Whether you’re stopping by for fresh air, exercise, or time with friends, Molasses Creek Park is worth the visit.
Unami Creek Park
98 Parkview Dr.
Quakertown, Pennsylvania 18951
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Unami Creek Park
Nestled in a quiet neighborhood just off Allentown Road, Unami Creek Park delivers a surprising amount of activity and open space for every age group. The recently refurbished 9-hole disc golf course (updated in 2025) is perfect for both beginners and seasoned players. A two-court pickleball area, added in 2021, sits alongside the fenced street hockey rink making this a go-to spot for friendly competition.
Beyond the fields and courts, the park offers a peaceful walking and hiking trails. These wooded pathways follow the edges of the creek and loop through shaded areas, giving visitors the chance to spot wildlife, enjoy a quiet walk, or simply take a relaxing stroll under the trees.
Families will find playgrounds and swing sets, while athletes can take advantage of baseball fields and a basketball court. Seasonal restrooms are available for convenience, and a large pavilion recently installed in spring 2022 can be reserved for private gatherings or community events.
Quiet setting, plenty to explore, and room to play Unami Creek Park has it all.
Trails
Unami Trail
Big trail networks don’t happen all at once; they’re built piece by piece. The Unami Trail is one of those key pieces, creating a strong foundation for a future system that connects neighborhoods, parks, and destinations throughout the township.
From a small trailhead and parking lot on Kumry Road just north of Weisel Road, more than a mile and a half of pathways wind through quiet woods and link the Parkside and Streamview communities. It’s an easy place to slip into nature, whether you’re walking, jogging, or just looking to unplug for a bit.
Along the way, you’ll find features that make the trail stand out including a 97-foot weathering-steel bridge designed to look like natural timber as it spans Barrel Run Creek, and unique marble mosaic markers set into the sidewalks in Streamview.
Take a stroll and see for yourself- it’s a peaceful escape hiding right in the heart of Milford Township.
Unami Trailhead Parking
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Barrel Run Trail
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Milford Township has invested in a large network of walking trails integrated with our beautiful park and recreation facilities.
Unami Watershed
The Unami Watershed is approximately 9,945 acres (15.8 square mile) of mostly contiguous woodlands that includes the Unami Creek and Ridge Valley Creek watersheds. As stated by the Natural Lands Trust, a local conservation group, this watershed is “one of the largest remaining forested landscapes in southeastern Pennsylvania, supporting a vast, interconnected mosaic of relatively natural habitat, with at least 30 patches of forest-interior habitat (30 acres or greater), a series of uncommon diabase woodlands, and over 24 miles of perennial streams, most of which are well buffered by forest”. Distinguished from the gently rolling Brunswick red shale landscape to the north, the Unami has unusually broad forest cover, prominent, diabase ridges and sharply defined valleys. The ecological integrity inherent in this landscape has resulted in an extraordinary combination of unique forest and meadow plant communities, forest-nesting bird species, and high quality streams.
Unami Creek is a tributary to Perkiomen Creek in southeastern Pennsylvania. The stream originates along the border of Bucks and Lehigh Counties northwest of Quakertown and flows in a southerly direction for 15.5 miles to its mouth near Perkiomenville in Montgomery County. The basin drains 48.8 square miles in portions of Bucks, Montgomery, and Lehigh Counties. Townships located in the basin include Milford, West Rockhill, Richland, and Springfield (Bucks County), Marlborough, Salford, and Upper Salford (Montgomery county), and Lower Milford and Upper Saucon (Lehigh County).
The unique combination of ecological factors, and the threat to the Unami Creek Valleys posed by rapidly encroaching suburban development has motivated Natural Lands Trust (NLT) to include this landscape in its list of priority conservation focus areas for southeastern Pennsylvania. The centerpiece of NLT’s involvement in the area is its 108-acre Fulshaw Craeg Preserve, which protects a combination of maturing diabase woodland and rare meadow plant communities along the Ridge Valley Creek. To expand its protection efforts in a focused manner, NLT has preparation of this Unami Creek Valleys Landscape Conservation Plan (LCP).
The LCP provides a summary of the key natural features of the Unami Creek Valleys, the landscape ecology that supports local and regional biodiversity, cultural and historic resources, and current and projected land use and land ownership patterns affecting the area. This information has been compiled using NLT’s Geographic Information System (GIS) database, field visits, and dialogue with local residents and government officials, and the associated text and series of maps are presented in this report. An assessment of threats and stresses facing the area has also been prepared, with a series of strategies outlined to abate some or all of the threats and/or stresses. Finally, a GIS-based analysis of this information has generated a detailed listing of Landscape Conservation Priorities, including parcel-specific identification of critical areas for short-term conservation and longer-term restoration.
Open Space Plan
Milford Township is located in the northwestern corner of Bucks County, surrounding Trumbauersville Borough. The township’s 28 square miles consist of areas of natural resources, active farms, small villages and contemporary suburban development. Milford contains the headwaters of the Unami Creek watershed, a watershed that includes portions of West Rockhill Township, and Marlborough and Salford townships in Montgomery County.
From the crossroads of Route 663 and the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, center city Philadelphia is more than twice the distance than to the center of Allentown. Consequently, there is a strong orientation toward Allentown and the Lehigh Valley. Yet Philadelphia and its suburbs remain a major metropolitan influence with convenient access via Route 309 or Interstate 476 (the “Blue Route”) in combination with the Turnpike. Interstate 78 to the north in the Lehigh Valley has also made for convenient access to northern New Jersey and New York City. The central location of Milford Township and its proximity to major highways provides easy access throughout the region. So, while Milford has retained a desirable open and rural quality, there is considerable demand to convert open space into more intensive land use.
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Water Resources
In 2005 the Natural Lands Trust (NLT) put together a study on the Unami Creek’s water resources. This document outlines the necessity of conserving and maintaining this important ecological system. This document defines the regions and conservation plan. Milford Township takes the preservation of these resources very seriously and works together with surrounding areas in order to maintain this important ecosystem.
Click here for a link to the NLT’s Assessment and Conservation Plan.