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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\u2019s 17th edition.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
It all wraps up at the Iroquois statue on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway<\/a>, a work created by artist Mark di Suvero that the city has owned for nearly two decades. The route\u2019s finish stands just east of the Philadelphia Museum of Art<\/a>, roughly two miles from its start.<\/p>\n That\u2019s 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\u2019s starting point in 2023 <\/a>and 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n Traditionally, pre-ride festivities like body painting sessions start a few hours before the ride.<\/p>\n