Self-Guided Bicycle Tour 1 Exit Wheel Fun Rentals turning Right onto Kelly Drive. 22 Turn Left onto Independence Mall West/6th Street. Continue South on the Trail alongside Waterworks Drive, 23 Turn Left onto Chestnut Street. 2 passing the Fountain of the Seahorses on your left. Center City 24 Turn Right onto Front Street. At Walnut Street, make a Slight Right to join onto the Schuylkill Riverbank Front Street ends at I-95 Park & Independence Historic Area, turn 3 25 Boardwalk. Right onto Dock Street. Be safe, cross busy 4 Exit the Boardwalk, turning Left onto South Street. 26 Take your first Left onto 38th Parallel Place. streets at stop signs & th 5 Turn Left onto S. 26 Street. 27 38th Parallel Place ends, turn Right onto Spruce Street. AG stoplights, and watch 6 Turn Right onto Pine Street. th AF for cars. 28 Turn Right onto 5 Street. 41J th Squares along the route 7 Turn Left onto 18 Street. 29 Turn Left onto Walnut Street. 40J are worth exploring. It 8 Turn Right onto Locust Street. 30 Turn Left onto 8th Street. is illegal to ride on any 9 Turn Left onto 13th Street. sidewalk including 31 Turn Right onto Spruce Street. 10 Turn Right onto Filbert Street. 32 Turn Right onto 13th Street. AE within the squares; th 2J please walk your bike in 11 Turn Left onto 9 Street. 33 Turn Left onto Arch Street. these areas. 12 Turn Right on Cherry Street. 34 Turn Left onto 15th Street. A B 39 Ride with traffic and th J 13 In one block turn Right onto 8 Street. 35 Turn Right onto John F. Kennedy Boulevard. obey one way street A scenic 3 - 4 hour AD 14 Turn Left onto Market Street. signs. Ride in bike 36 Turn Right onto N. 16th Street. tour, includes th lanes where possible. 15 Turn Left onto 7 Street. At the intersection of Arch Street, 16th Street & approximately 1.5 - AC 37 Turn Right onto Race Street. Parkway, turn Left onto Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 2 hours of riding 16 Operating in th Remain on Benjamin Franklin Parkway by going half way around the Turn Left onto 5 Street, & proceed along the pathway on the Benjamin 38 time and 2 hours for Partnership with Logan Square roundabout, exiting on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. sightseeing, photo 17 Franklin Bridge. Take in the view & return the way you came along the bridge. To the right of the Philadelphia Museum of Art remain on Benjamin ops and exploring AB 39 Turn Left along the 5th Street sidewalk, walking your bicycle one block to Race Franklin Parkway as it turns into Kelly Drive. along the way. 18 AA Street. Immediately after crossing Sedgely Drive/Waterworks Drive using the crosswalk, cross Kelly Drive continuing Straight onto the Schuylkill River 19 Turn Left onto Race Street. 40 Trail to return to Wheel Fun Rentals. 38J 20 Turn Right onto 2nd Street. Optional: Continue North onto the to Valley Z 41 Y 21 Turn Right onto Arch Street. Forge. X

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A E Avenue of the Arts I Elfreth’s Alley M Independence Mall T Y Logan Square AC In the early 19th century, Within the arts district are Elfreth’s Alley is known as State Park Home to , Logan Square’s history Named for famed world-class performing arts the nation’s oldest residential the first mayor of Philadelphia included public executions and Philadelphia artist Thomas the water works was designed th centers and schools, including street, dating back to 1702. after the creation of the United burial plots until the early 19 Eakins, it is home to the to provide fresh water to the the Kimmel Center for the Today 32 houses built between National Constitution States, this house played host century. The Swann Memorial growing city population, with N Fountain uses large Native Performing Arts with its vaulted 1728 and 1836 line the alley, Center to , John Fountain, created by Rudolf inner workings masked by a glass ceiling and the largest forming one of the last intact Adams and the Marquis de American figures to depict the Siemering which features a classical exterior. Today it mechanical action pipe organ in early American streetscapes in Lafayette. Today the Powel areas major water sources; the statue of George Washington houses the Fairmount Water the country, as well as the the nation. House depicts the lives of the Delaware, Schuylkill and atop his horse facing down Works Interpretive Center, with outdoor Mann Center. O Independence Visitor wealthy colonialists during the Wissahickon. Benjamin Franklin Parkway Revolution. interactive exhibits. Center toward . The hub for the Independence J House Mall, at the Visitors Center you This 18th century house F Philadelphia City Hall can get tickets to attractions, The was the birthplace of the Z Steps & the Rocky B Philadelphia Museum Standing at nearly 600 tours and maps, as well as U Washington Square Established in 1824 and AD of Art feet tall, the City Hall building American Flag, and today the shop the gift shop or grab a Washington Square was Statue is decorated named for Founding Father Established in 1876, the was the world’s tallest snack at the café. named for President George Benjamin Franklin, the museum The 72 stone steps before the inhabitable building until 1908 in period furnishings and Washington, and is home to the museum is one of the largest exhibits include Electricity, The entrance of the Philadelphia and is the largest municipal includes objects owned by Tomb of the Unknown and most renowned in the Ross and her family. Giant Heart, as well as displays Museum of Art have become building in the country. At the Revolutionary War Soldier, of telescopes, space travel and country, hosting special highest point on the building’s honoring all soldiers and sailors known as the “”, P The the world’s largest collection of exhibits, in addition to more tower is a statue of of the Revolutionary War. Wright Brothers’ artifacts. from the Rocky movies, with a than 200,000 items in its Philadelphia’s founder, William K Christ Church Burial bronze statue of . collection, including Rubens, Penn, with an observation deck Ground accessible to visitors. Christ Church Burial Ground is Q Congress Hall Manet, Van Gogh, Renoir, AA The Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, one of America’s most V Academy The Barnes Foundation interesting Colonial and of Fine Arts Cezanne, Dali and Philadelphia holds more than 2,500 objects, AE Fountain of Seahorses Revolution-era graveyards, and Founded in 1805, the Academy Franklin Square R primarily from impressionist G is the final resting place of is the oldest art museum in the and modern masters, including Franklin Square, named Benjamin Franklin and four . It houses Renoir, Rubens, Goya, Manet, C Schuylkill River Park for Founding Father Benjamin other signers of the Declaration th collections from the 19 and Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, AF Mansion Franklin, is believed to be the th of Independence. Penn’s Landing 20 century America. Rousseau, Modigliani, and site where Franklin conducted S Bought in 1799 by Henry Named for Pennsylvania Seurat, in addition to a 12-acre his famous lightening storm kite Pratt for $14,600, the 43 acres founder , Penn’s arboretum with over 3,000 flight, which is celebrated by a D Landing hosts summer species of plants and trees. of land provides picturesque Rittenhouse Square is large Bolt of Lightning L US concerts, and several historic JFK Plaza - views from its bluff locale named for astronomer, sculpture. A family friendly W The ships. The World War II Named for President above . instrument maker and patriotic park, there are playgrounds, a was the first US Mint built after submarines USS Becuna and John F. Kennedy, the park is leader, ,. carousel, and a miniature golf the Constitution was ratified. USS Olympia, and a Spanish- known as Love Park thanks to AB Once the most fashionable course. Approximately one million coins America War cruiser are Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE Featuring the world’s residential section of the city, can be minted in 30 minutes, docked at Penn’s Landing as sculpture. The second largest collection of many mansions still line the AG Schuylkill Bike Trail while the original Mint took part of the museum. The sailing Welcome Center and Love Gift Auguste Rodin’s works, streets facing the Square. three years to produce as Fireman’s Hall Museum ship, Moshulu, featured in the Shop are located in the Plaza. including the statue, H much. Tours of the various films Rocky & The Godfather II, The Thinker. stages of minting can be taken. now serves as a restaurant.

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