Pretzel Park

Pretzel Park is a small park in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was officially named Manayunk Park from its creation in 1929 until 2004, when it was renamed.

Type: Park
Description: public park in Philadelphia
Also known as: “Manayunk Park”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Manayunk and Manayunk station.

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Manayunk

Church

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

St. John the Baptist Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Established in 1831, it is the tenth oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church, Manayunk is situated 440 feet southeast of Pretzel Park.

Manayunk station

Railway station

Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Manayunk station is a station located along the SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown rail line. It is located at Cresson and Carson Streets in the Manayunk neighborhood of northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Manayunk station is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Pretzel Park.

Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Mule Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Ii2nmd, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Mule Bridge spans the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania, connecting Venice Island in Manayunk, Philadelphia, with Bala Cynwyd. It was built by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in 1889. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Mule Bridge is situated 1,500 feet south of Pretzel Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Manayunk and Roxborough.

Manayunk

Neighborhood

Photo: Dasprevailz, Public domain.

Manayunk is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States.

Roxborough

Neighborhood

Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.

Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bordered to the southwest, along the Schuylkill River, by the neighborhood of Manayunk, along the northeast by the Wissahickon Creek section of Fairmount Park, and to the southeast by the neighborhood of East Falls.

Wissahickon

Neighborhood

Photo: Kmdevoe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wissahickon is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Wissahickon is located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Manayunk, and it is bounded by the Wissahickon Valley Park, Ridge Avenue, Hermit Street, and Henry Avenue.

Pretzel Park

Category: recreation area
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.02564° or 40° 1′ 32″ north

Longitude

-75.22118° or 75° 13′ 16″ west

Open location code

87G62QGH+7G

OpenStreetMap ID

way 197528040

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

Wikidata ID

Q21197618

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