Merion Friends Meeting Activities Building
615 Montgomery Avenue, Lower Merion, PA
Merion Friends is northwest of the Route 1 (City Line) and 76 junction.
Public Transit (SEPTA):
By train: Take the R5 local train (Philadelphia--Paoli--Downingtown): Exit at Narberth Station. Trains run every half hour or less from Center City and 30th Street. You'll need a Zone 2 ticket.
Follow the shopping street / Haverford Road to your right (the street has a few disjunctures, you may need to ask the way) until you reach Montgomery Ave.(10 minutes or less.) The Merion Friends Activities Building is across the road.
By bus: Alternately, take the 44 bus from 30th St. Station to Haverford and Montgomery Ave. Take a bus that says "Ardmore" or "Narberth" on the front of it. You'll get off right in front of the dance hall, at the Exxon station.From 76, take the Route 1 exit:
- Go south/west on Route 1 (away from Philadelphia),
- Turn Right at Route 23 -- traffic light just after a large shopping center complex.
- Follow the road for a few blocks until it turns left over a small railroad bridge.
- Go straight (don't follow 23) on Montgomery Avenue another mile or less.
- The building is
on your right just before the General Wayne Inn, and is set back from
the road so you can't see it.
The driveway is lit by two old-fashioned street lamps, and is DIRECTLY across from an EXXON station.
From City Line (Route 1) headed north:
from West Philly, Delaware or Chester Counties:Soon after crossing Lancaster (30) Ave and the light at Wynnewood Road, turn left onto Merion Road -- the traffic light *immediately* after City Line bridges the train tracks at Overbrook Station. Follow Merion till the very end, turn left at the traffic light onto Montgomery Avenue. Merion Friends Activities Building is about 100 yards down the road on your right, just past the Catholic school and convent.
From the Main Line:
Take Montgomery Avenue east until the 5 point intersection at the Narberth/Merion boundary. When you see the General Wayne Inn, turn left into the driveway directly across from the EXXON.
Summit Presbyterian Church
Greene & Westview Streets, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia
By public transit (SEPTA):
By train: Take the R8 Chestnut Hill West train to Upsal Station. Walk down the
hill on Green St. across Lincoln Drive to get to the church (about 3 blocks).
By bus: Alternately take the H bus to Westview and McCallum. Walk one block
on Westview to the church.
From the Route 76 (Schuylkill Expressway) exit:
Drive north up the winding Lincoln Drive for several miles. The drive leaves the park and enters a residential neighborhood. Turn left onto Greene Street (traffic light after a curve).
The church is on your right at the top of the first block.
Please do not park on Westview Street.
From north of Philadelphia:
Take the Turnpike to 309 South. Where the express road ends, follow signs to Mt. Airy, which puts you on Easton Road (later Mt. Airy Ave.), headed South.
After about two miles, take a brief Left on Germantown Avenue (an old road with trolley tracks) and a Right at the traffic light at Mt. Pleasant.
After about 8 blocks, turn Left on Greene Street. The Church is on your Left on the last major block before the bottom of the hill. (You may need to turn around, as you can only park on the uphill side of the street.)