Veteran's Day
Parade & Festival

Free, family-friendly Veterans Day observance on Sunday, November 8. The parade starts at 12 PM on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, goes around the north side of Eakins Oval and ends on the south side. The Veteran's Day Festival takes place at Eakins Oval from 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM, connecting veterans and families with job recruitment and education opportunities, healthcare benefits and financial assistance, service providers and informative workshops. Food vendors, a beer garden and activities for all ages are part of the festival. Eakins Oval is closed from 6 AM to 5:30 PM, and the parade starting area on Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 17th and 21st Streets, including numbered side streets, is closed from 6 AM. Closures from 11:30 AM affect Benjamin Franklin Parkway between 21st Street and Eakins Oval, including numbered side streets, Kelly Drive between Spring Garden Street and 25th Street, the Spring Garden Street off-ramp at Eakins Oval, and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, reopening when the parade concludes. SEPTA routes 2, 7, 32, 33, 38, 43, 48 and 49 are detoured from 5 AM to 5:30 PM.