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Announcement

Expanded curfew hours for park areas through March 31, 2026

Philadelphia Parks & Recreation is enforcing expanded curfew hours in select park areas to ensure public safety during yearly deer control operations. Now, through March 31, 2026, the following parks are closed daily from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.:
All trails, parking lots, and other areas in these parks are off-limits to pedestrians, cyclists, equestrians, and vehicles during these hours. Visitors are urged to respect the closures to maintain safety during deer control operations.
For questions or additional information, contact Philadelphia Parks and Recreation: parksandrecreation@phila.gov
Announced on: Philadelphia Parks & Recreation

Upcoming events

  • Jan
    13
    Event
    Holidays at Peddler's Village
    12:00 am to 1:00 am
    Peddler's Village, 100 Peddlers Village, Lahaska, PA 18931, USA
    Event

    Holidays at Peddler's Village

    January 13, 2026
    12:00 am to 1:00 am, 1 hour
    Peddler's Village, 100 Peddlers Village, Lahaska, PA 18931, USA
    map
  • Dec
    18
    Event
    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    Event

    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village

    December 18, 2025
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    map

    For generations of Philadelphians, it’s just not the holidays without a trip to the Wanamaker Building (the site of America’s very first department store) and, most recently, Macy’s Center City flagship.


    And despite the recent closure of Macy’s, the show must go on.

    For over 50 years, dancing snowflakes, snowmen and reindeer — brought to life by hundreds of thousands of twinkling lights and a festive soundtrack backed by the world-famous Wanamaker Organ — have brightened the days of holiday revelers during the Wanamaker Light Show (formerly the Macy’s Light Show).

    Upstairs, Dickens Village — a 6,000-square-foot animatronic retelling of A Christmas Carol — has sparked major levels of holiday-induced nostalgia and warmed even the Scroogiest of hearts.

    The beloved family traditions return to their longtime home — with some sparkly new additions — from Black Friday, November 28, 2025 to Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.


    https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/events/wanamaker-light-show/

  • Dec
    19
    Event
    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    Event

    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village

    December 19, 2025
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    map

    For generations of Philadelphians, it’s just not the holidays without a trip to the Wanamaker Building (the site of America’s very first department store) and, most recently, Macy’s Center City flagship.


    And despite the recent closure of Macy’s, the show must go on.

    For over 50 years, dancing snowflakes, snowmen and reindeer — brought to life by hundreds of thousands of twinkling lights and a festive soundtrack backed by the world-famous Wanamaker Organ — have brightened the days of holiday revelers during the Wanamaker Light Show (formerly the Macy’s Light Show).

    Upstairs, Dickens Village — a 6,000-square-foot animatronic retelling of A Christmas Carol — has sparked major levels of holiday-induced nostalgia and warmed even the Scroogiest of hearts.

    The beloved family traditions return to their longtime home — with some sparkly new additions — from Black Friday, November 28, 2025 to Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.


    https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/events/wanamaker-light-show/

  • Jan
    13
    Event
    Kensington Service Connections/Site Clean-ups
    All Day
    Multiple Kensington locations
    Event

    Kensington Service Connections/Site Clean-ups

    January 13, 2026
    All Day
    Multiple Kensington locations
    map

    Service Connection/Site Clean-ups will occur today at these Kensington locations:

    • 709-711 E. Allegheny Avenue
    • Reach Street and Allegheny Avenue
    • 800 E. Allegheny Avenue (multiple locations on block)
    • 1800 E. Clementine Street (corner of Kensington Avenue and Clementine Street)
    • 1800 E. Harold Street
    • 1800 E. Clearfield Street
    • 1800 E. Orleans Street (both sides)
    • 1800 E. Somerset Street (multiple locations on block)
    • 400 E. Somerset Street
    • 2800 Kensington Avenue (multiple locations on block)
    • 2000 E. Sterner Street
    • 2000 E. Silver Street
    • 1800 - 1813 Hart Lane (both sides)
    • 500 E. Luzerne Street
    • 2700 N. Philip Street

    About Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days 

    Office of Homeless Services Encampment Resolution Team (ERT) staff members join the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services’s (DBHIDS) Homeless Street Outreach Team (Outreach) and the City’s Sanitation Department to conduct *Service Connection/Site Clean-up Days. OHS’s ERT staff schedules and leads service connection clean-ups at various selected outdoor encampment locations in Philadelphia. 

    How it Works 

    The teams post signs in advance to alert people living in tents, RVs, makeshift shelters, or none at all, on sidewalks, under bridges, in parks, empty fields, lots, etc., of upcoming service days. Each service day, the teams visit the encampment sites to offer individuals services, such as rides to a City intake center where staff can help find shelter space, Stranded Traveler Assistance, behavioral health, drug or medical treatment, and other similar services. The Sanitation Department team further assists by cleaning up accumulated trash. 

    * Service days are not the same as formal, encampment resolutions, which, while social services-led, involve many more City of Philadelphia departments and nonprofit partners and follow specific protocols regarding personal property storage, notification, and other requirements. 

  • Dec
    20
    Event
    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    Event

    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village

    December 20, 2025
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    map

    For generations of Philadelphians, it’s just not the holidays without a trip to the Wanamaker Building (the site of America’s very first department store) and, most recently, Macy’s Center City flagship.


    And despite the recent closure of Macy’s, the show must go on.

    For over 50 years, dancing snowflakes, snowmen and reindeer — brought to life by hundreds of thousands of twinkling lights and a festive soundtrack backed by the world-famous Wanamaker Organ — have brightened the days of holiday revelers during the Wanamaker Light Show (formerly the Macy’s Light Show).

    Upstairs, Dickens Village — a 6,000-square-foot animatronic retelling of A Christmas Carol — has sparked major levels of holiday-induced nostalgia and warmed even the Scroogiest of hearts.

    The beloved family traditions return to their longtime home — with some sparkly new additions — from Black Friday, November 28, 2025 to Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.


    https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/events/wanamaker-light-show/

  • Dec
    21
    Event
    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    Event

    Wanamaker Light Show & Dickens Village

    December 21, 2025
    All Day
    The Wanamaker Building, 100 E Penn Square, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
    map

    For generations of Philadelphians, it’s just not the holidays without a trip to the Wanamaker Building (the site of America’s very first department store) and, most recently, Macy’s Center City flagship.


    And despite the recent closure of Macy’s, the show must go on.

    For over 50 years, dancing snowflakes, snowmen and reindeer — brought to life by hundreds of thousands of twinkling lights and a festive soundtrack backed by the world-famous Wanamaker Organ — have brightened the days of holiday revelers during the Wanamaker Light Show (formerly the Macy’s Light Show).

    Upstairs, Dickens Village — a 6,000-square-foot animatronic retelling of A Christmas Carol — has sparked major levels of holiday-induced nostalgia and warmed even the Scroogiest of hearts.

    The beloved family traditions return to their longtime home — with some sparkly new additions — from Black Friday, November 28, 2025 to Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.


    https://www.visitphilly.com/things-to-do/events/wanamaker-light-show/

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