The Philly Naked Bike Ride is this weekend. Here’s the route.

Saturday sees the return of the Philly Naked Bike Ride, which brings cyclists to a 12-mile route of bare-as-you-dare city riding for the event’s 17th edition.

This year, the ride is slated to kick off at 5 p.m. at the Dragon Boat Dock along Martin Luther King Drive, with a slightly different route than in previous years. For 2026, riders will head toward Eakins Oval and use the Benjamin Franklin Parkway to make their way around Logan Square to get to City Hall before heading to Rittenhouse Square and South Philly and making their way back north.

It all wraps up at the Iroquois statue on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, a work created by artist Mark di Suvero that the city has owned for nearly two decades. The route’s finish stands just east of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, roughly two miles from its start.

That’s a slightly different route from 2025, which had riders start at Lemon Hill and end at the art museum itself. Lemon Hill also served as the ride’s starting point in 2023 and 2022.

Traditionally, pre-ride festivities like body painting sessions start a few hours before the ride.

Held annually with the exception of the pandemic year of 2020, the Philly Naked Bike Ride began in 2009 as a four-mile course that attracted roughly 400 riders. Now, it often brings out thousands of participants for the clothing-optional festivities. No fee or registration is required.

As per usual, this year’s event aims to promote cycling advocacy, body positivity, environmentalism, and safe cycling infrastructure. Nudity is not required to participate, organizers note online, and the ride is designed to be “safe and enjoyable for everyone.”

According to a code of conduct posted to the event’s website, organizers expect that participants not participate in “any form of sexual or physical harassment,” and refrain from any “unwelcome behavior.”

“Ultimately, one of the goals of the Philly Naked Bike Ride is to desexualize nudity and to encourage everyone to embrace nudity as a normal, enjoyable way of life,” the code of conduct reads. “Following this policy will help further this goal and teach all of us how to be better people in general.”