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Your Summer Waterfront Guide

With the approaching kickoff of summer, let's make a pact, Philly, not to spend this summer indoors. Whether you start your day with waterfront yoga or end it swinging in a hammock listening to live music, let the Delaware River Waterfront be a fresh-air home away from home these next few months. All summer long, the Delaware River Waterfront Corp (DRWC) will be hosting FREE outdoor events for...

April 26, 2013 -- DRWC Awards Public Art Contact for the Columbia Ave Connector Project

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Waterfront Reads

A roundup of our weekly reading list, featuring articles about the Delaware River waterfront, other waterfronts around the country, public placemaking, and anything else that peaks our interest. Delaware River Waterfront DRWC is awarded the 2013 Award of Excellence for their Master of Plan for the Central Delaware Waterfront by the American Institute of Architects (Urban Affairs Coalition) Newly...

Ben Franklin Yacht

The Ben Franklin Yacht is a plush 3-Level private vessel that can be rented to cruise along Philadelphia's scenic & historic waterfront. The boat is family owned and has been operating for almost twenty years along the Delaware. Cruises can be fully catered and can include full bar service. Parking

DIRECTIONS TO THE GREAT PLAZA

DIRECTIONS BY BUS SEPTA Bus Routes 21 & 42 stop at The Great Plaza at Penn's Landing and Blue Cross RiverRink Summerfest at the Chestnut Street turnaround. Routes 17, 33, & 48 stop at Front and Market Streets. Route 12 stops directly at Spruce Street Harbor Park Presented by Univest at Columbus Blvd and Dock Street. Route 25 runs along Columbus Blvd. BY RAIL Take the SEPTA Market-...

Parking for the Race Street Pier

Fishing on the Delaware River Waterfront

Delaware River Waterfront Corp's Fishing Policy The Delaware River Waterfront Corp is in the process of developing a comprhensive catch and release fishing program to coincide with the opening of Pier 68 park in Pennsport in summer 2015. We are looking at ways to incorporate this fishing program into areas along the river beyond Pier 68, which is being developed as a fishing and recreation...

Delaware River Trail Update: Weaver’s Knot - Sheet Bend Sculpture Installation

Beginning on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, artists from Ball-Nogues Studios will begin the installation of a new piece of public art on the waterfront, Weaver’s Knot - Sheet Bend, a sculpture installed between Cherry Street Pier and Race Street Pier as a part of the Delaware River Trail. Commissioned by the City’s Public Art Office and DRWC, Weaver’s Knot - Sheet Bend is evocative of an ancient...