Date/Time
Date(s) - September 18, 2022
8:45 am - 11:00 am
Join the 10th walk! Ten days of organized walks and related programming in September 2022 will bring neighbors together to explore the city’s edge. You’re invited!
Fall 2022 dates:
Sept 8 – Virtual info session / kickoff celebration
Sept 10 – Cobbs Creek
8am Clockwise towards Wissahickon – NEAR CAPACITY
8am Counter-clockwise towards Heinz/Airport – NEAR CAPACIY
9am Clockwise towards Wissahickon – NEAR CAPACITY
9am Counter-clockwise towards Heinz/Airport
Sept 11 – Wissahickon
8:40am Clockwise towards Chestnut Hill East – NEAR CAPACITY
8:40am Counter-clockwise towards 61st & Baltimore – NEAR CAPACITY
10:40am Clockwise towards Chestnut Hill East
10:40am Counter-clockwise towards 61st & Baltimore
Sept 12 – Chestnut Hill
7:30am Clockwise towards Fox Chase – NEAR CAPACITY
7:30am Counter-clockwise towards Wissahickon
8:45 Clockwise towards Fox Chase (PENDING)
8:45 Counter-clockwise towards Wissahickon (PENDING)
Sept 17 – Fox Chase
7:30am Clockwise towards Somerton
7:30 am Counter-clockwise towards Chestnut Hill East (PENDING)
9:30am Clockwise towards Somerton (PENDING)
9:30am Counter-clockwise towards Chestnut Hill East (PENDING)
Sept 18 – Somerton
8:50am Clockwise towards Torresdale – NEAR CAPACITY
8:50am Counter-clockwise towards Fox Chase
10:50am Clockwise towards Torresdale (PENDING)
10:50am Counter-clockwise towards Fox Chase (PENDING)
Sept 19 – Torresdale
8:15am Clockwise towards Bridesburg
8:15 am Counter-clockwise towards Somerton
9:15am Clockwise towards Bridesburg (PENDING)
9:15 am Counter-clockwise towards Somerton (PENDING)
Sept 23 – Bridesburg
8:10am Clockwise towards Pier 68
8:10am Counter-clockwise towards Torresdale (PENDING)
9:10am Clockwise towards Pier 68
9:10am Counter-clockwise towards Torresdale (PENDING)
Sept 24 – Pier 68
8:30am Clockwise towards Airport, 8:30am – NEAR CAPACITY
8:30am Counter-clockwise towards Bridesburg
9:40am Clockwise towards Airport, 9:40am – NEAR CAPACITY
9:40am Counter-clockwise towards Bridesburg (PENDING)
Sept 25 – Airport (1)
8:30am Clockwise around Hog Island towards Airport terminal A – NEAR CAPACITY
8:30am Counter-clockwise towards Pier 68 – NEAR CAPACITY
9:30am Clockwise around Hog Island towards Airport terminal A (PENDING)
9:30am Counter-clockwise towards Pier 68 (PENDING)
Sept 26 – Airport (2)
8:30am Clockwise towards 61st St & Baltimore Ave
8:30am Counter-clockwise around Hog Island towards Airport terminal F (PENDING)
9:30am Clockwise towards 61st St & Baltimore Ave (PENDING)
9:30am Counter-clockwise around Hog Island towards Airport terminal F (PENDING)
Oct 1 – Closing celebration + reportback @ Cherry Street Pier! / in-person celebration of 10th walk (1,000+ miles!) w/ West Philadelphia Orchestra, raffle & more (No walking required…)
Walk Around Philadelphia is an opportunity for adventure and discovery close to home. It provides a physical challenge & sense of personal accomplishment. It cultivates civic pride & a humbling sense of scale. Along the way are opportunities to ponder themes of social & environmental justice, infrastructure & ecosystems, commerce & incarceration, indigenous history & colonization, privilege & access, and of course borders & boundaries.
Along the city’s edge, one finds highways & waterways, ruined factories decaying & new housing being developed, a historic mansion alongside prisons. There are shipyards, scrapyards, graveyards and farmyards. Amidst beautiful parks are piles of storage units, and so much more.
The oddly-shaped boundaries sometime follow the curves of waterways and other times arbitrary-seeming straight lines drawn by surveyors. In some places, there’s no visual difference between either side; in other areas the contrasts are stark.
The project holds space for authentic connection between individuals who might otherwise not cross paths. Rare in our world are opportunities to walk side-by-side for long, uninterrupted periods of time, and the experience of setting out walking together is in many ways an inclusive one: One participant noted “How easily the numbers ebbed and flowed with people joining for parts of the walk and how accepting and welcoming everyone was when you “landed” in the group.”
On the other hand, there are real barriers to participation ranging from accessibility issues to financial circumstances. These are the barriers that Walk Around Philadelphia has begun to address and will continue to as more resources become available.
