Walks & Hikes
Physical Fitness Task Force’s 2026 Winter Hikes
Please click HERE to view the 2026 Winter Hikes flyer that includes detailed information about each hike
For the latest hike updates, please visit Healthy Adams County’s Facebook page by clicking HERE.
PLEASE NOTE:
Sunday February 15th Hermitage trail hike is being changed to a 5-mile walk due to icy conditions on the Hermitage trail. Please join Healthy Adams County for a 5 mile hilly walk on Sunday February 15th starting from the South Confederate Picnic Area at 1:30. (The originally scheduled Hermitage Trail hike is not available due to the snow.) The picnic area is on S. Confederate Ave just south of Emmitsburg Road on the west side of Gettysburg. The walk will be entirely on quiet, but hilly roads, meandering around Big Round Top and Devil’s Den. There is a bit of parking in the picnic area lot and then it is allowed on the side of the road after the picnic area where the road becomes one way.
To view additional events please click on the following link: https://www.healthyadamscounty.org/events
For questions or more information regarding these events please call 717-337-4137 or email kgaskin@wellspan.org.
Health Benefits of Outdoor Recreation
This video by the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation encapsulates so many of the benefits of walking and biking outdoors!
Attention Parents and Children! The internet is full of free resources to keep you and your children motivated for physical activity!
Click on the following link children-go-for-physical-activity-resources-wm-final-1 to access the “Children Go for Physical Activity – Links for Parents and Children”, which will lead you into the world of health and physical activity, with fun, internet-based links for movement activities. Children and their parents will find some basic searchable internet resources, as well as links to yoga, Zumba, and theme-based movement adventures. Want to foster alphabet sound recognition? Numbers? Colors and Music? Build a simple obstacle course? Find it here – some English, some Spanish – all can be followed by watching the motions! Search and move for a healthier heart!
Developed by the Physical Fitness Task Force and the Children’s Health and Nutrition Task Force of Healthy Adams County, PA.
Visit these websites for other activities happening in the community
YWCA Gettysburg & Adams County: https://www.ywcagettysburg.org/special-events/ & https://www.ywcagettysburg.org/brown-bag-lunch-series-2/
United Way of Adams County: http://www.uwadams.org/Annual-Events
Adams County Arts Council *(scholarships for classes available): https://adamsarts.org/
Adams County Library: https://www.adamslibrary.org/
Gettysburg Rec Park: https://www.gara-recpark.info/
Healthy Adams Bicycle Pedestrian Inc.: http://habpi.org/pages/organized.php
Destination Gettysburg: https://www.destinationgettysburg.com/index.asp
Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve: https://www.strawberryhill.org/
*Under the Horizon: http://underthehorizon.net/
Gettysburg Community Theatre: https://www.gettysburgcommunitytheatre.org/
Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory: https://www.gettysburg.edu/academic-programs/sunderman-conservatory/events/
Adams County Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/adams-county
Penn Cares: https://www.penncares.org/
Pine Grove Furnace State Park: https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/StateParks/FindAPark/PineGroveFurnaceStatePark/Pages/default.aspx#FindUs
East Berlin Community Center: http://www.ebacc.org/
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