Pop Up Harbor Park

We live on 13th street, and if you walk down to where 0th street would be, you'd be at the Delaware River. Usually the waterfront is pretty boring - there's a hotel and some old boats there, but that's about it. Still, when the weather is nice Ben and I like to walk over to stare at the water for a while, just for a nice walk. However, as of this week the waterfront is now home to a pop-up harbor park!

None of that is usually there - just the brick walkway and the stone wall with the posts and chains are permanent. The entire boardwalk thing, including the trees and the floating garden, are new and just for this summer. There are a bunch of repurposed shipping containers scattered around - some selling food and beer, others with small arcades inside of them.

The stretch of lawn between the road and the river, which is usually just home to some trees, is now a "hammock lounge" with tons of color-changing lights strung up.

There's also a bocce ball court, ping pong table, and a bunch of games everywhere (like an oversized chess set and giant jenga). The whole thing is extremely hip - they've even livened up the boring old flag poles by wrapping them all in knit cozies.

When we went yesterday it had just opened and so, while still fun, was also extremely packed. We're planning to go back on a random weeknight in the hope that it will be less crowded, so we can grab a hammock and hang out for a while. There's so much fun stuff that happens in Philly over the summer, I wish I still got summer vacation...