Main Street, lot by lot
A walk down New Hope's Main Street from Waterloo to the bridge: what the storefronts are, where the crowds thicken and how to read the street.
0.0 mi - the origin
A river town of one mile, charted lot by lot.
An independent town guide to New Hope, Pennsylvania, kept lot by lot: streets, river, tables and stays, charted and numbered.
Open the lot index
The playhouse block
South Main Street around the Bucks County Playhouse: the gristmill bones under the theatre, the deck over the canal, and the block's evening rhythm.
0.3 mi from Mechanic St
Ferry Street to the landing
Ferry Street runs downhill from Main to the riverbank where the town's ferries once crossed: the slope, the landing and what remains at the water.
0.2 mi downhill
A first walk in New Hope
The one-mile loop that charts the whole town: Main Street down, the towpath back, and the corners worth slowing for.
1.0 mi the whole loop
The bridge to Lambertville
The New Hope-Lambertville Bridge: the free crossing, the walkway over the Delaware, and the twin town on the far bank.
0.2 mi from Mechanic St
- 14blocks charted
- 1.0mile end to end
- 18938the zip on every lot
- 2500residents on the roll
Latest sheets
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The towpath mile
The Delaware Canal towpath through New Hope: Lock 11, the locktender's house, and the flat mile that changed the town's trade. 0.1 mi to the canal bank
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The canal boat ride
The mule-drawn canal boat at Lock 11: what the ride is, what it shows you, and the honest limits of the town's oldest attraction. 0.2 mi to Lock 11
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Reading the river
The Delaware at New Hope: what the river does for the town, what it has done to it, and where to stand to watch it. 0.4 mi of waterfront
The lot index
14 entries- TWN-01Main Street, lot by lotThe Town
- TWN-02The playhouse blockThe Town
- TWN-03Ferry Street to the landingThe Town
- TWN-04A first walk in New HopeThe Town
- RVR-01The bridge to LambertvilleThe River
- RVR-02The towpath mileThe River
- RVR-03The canal boat rideThe River
- RVR-04Reading the riverThe River
- TBL-01Breakfast before the crowdTables
- TBL-02Dinner on MainTables
- TBL-03The counter cultureTables
- STY-01Where to sleep in townStaying Over
- STY-02Porches and parlorsStaying Over
- STY-03Arriving without a carStaying Over
Adjoining plats
Sheets kept by other surveyors, each read before it was pinned here.
For another small-town survey of street life and local festivals, the Athens desk keeps a sheet worth reading beside this one.
Readers who like walking a measured line will enjoy a German trail journal kept the same way, stage by stage.
If the Tables zone is your first stop, a farmers market ledger from the Belgrade Lakes covers the food side of a small town.
For the Staying Over instinct carried further, a working farm stay in Umbria shows what a bed on the land looks like abroad.
A city walked in photographs, Bilbao street by street, is the closest cousin of this book on the shelf. a city walked in photographs