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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 10 trails and paths
Best trails and paths in Philadelphia
The 10 most notable trails and paths in Philadelphia, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Wissahickon Trail Ridge Avenue
4918-4904 Ridge Ave
328 m from Wissahickon, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.566, percentile 100 of 10
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2
Cynwyd Heritage Trail
205 E Levering Mill Rd
6 m from Barmouth station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.232, percentile 88.89 of 10
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3
Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk
Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk
358 m from Penn Medicine station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.960, percentile 77.78 of 10
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4
Manayunk Canal Path
2 Cotton St
294 m from Manayunk, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.898, percentile 66.67 of 10
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5
Spring Mill Trail Head
Schuylkill River Trl
42 m from Spring Mill, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.865, percentile 55.56 of 10
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6
Horsham Powerline Trail
Dresher Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.837, percentile 44.44 of 10
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7
Cresheim Creek
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has no website, phone or address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.626, percentile 33.33 of 10
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Delaware River Trail in Frenchtown
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.626, percentile 22.22 of 10
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9
Pennypack trail
3240 Masons Mill Rd
133 m from Woodmont, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.278, percentile 11.11 of 10
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10
Schuylkill River Trail
2499 Walnut St
255 m from 30th Street, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.112, percentile 0 of 10
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).