Perkasie Trolley Tunnel
Built in 1912 so the Lehigh Valley Transit trolley could duck under the Reading Railroad, this stone tunnel carried the interurban line that ran hourly from Allentown down to Philadelphia until the cars stopped in 1951. The trolleys are long gone, but the tunnel still stands on the old right-of-way, one of the last things you can walk up and touch from that line.
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WPA Twin Bridges
Two white suspension footbridges the WPA strung across Lake Lenape in 1938, modeled on the same Roebling design behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Roughly 500 feet of towers and cable over the creek, and still the only suspension bridges anywhere in Pennridge.
Mood's Covered Bridge
An 1874 covered bridge over the Perkiomen's northeast branch, burned by arson in 2004 and rebuilt in period lattice-truss style, reopening in February 2008. One salvaged piece of the original truss is built into the new frame, and it still carries about 2,000 cars a day just outside town.
Perkasie Park
Sixty-odd Carpenter Gothic cottages, gingerbread trim and all, ringed around an open-air auditorium: a Methodist camp-meeting community that opened in 1882 and never really shut down. Founders' Day in early August is when the private grounds open up for cottage tours.
