You’ve driven the Ben Franklin Bridge for years — now you can walk right down the middle

✅The Ben Franklin Bridge opens its travel lanes to pedestrians Saturday

✅Camden hosts the bridge's 100th anniversary celebration

✅Visitors can also see bridge maintenance equipment and learn its history

If walking across the middle of the Ben Franklin Bridge is on your bucket list, Saturday is your lucky day.

As part of the 100th anniversary of the iconic bridge connecting Philadelphia and Camden, the span will be open to walk in the travel lanes between 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m, rain or shine. New Jersey 101.5 Chief Meteorologist Dan Zarrow expects good "bridge walking" weather with partly sunny skies and less humid with temperatures in the 80s.

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Ben Franklin Bridge between Camden and Philadelphia Wed., July 8. 2026

Celebration in Camden

The bridge will close to vehicles at 8:30 a.m. and will reopen at 4 p.m.

People will be walking on the westbound side. They can get on the bridge from the Philadelphia side on Race and North 6th streets near Franklin Square.

The party is on the Camden side of the bridge near the toll plaza with live entertainment, food trucks, family activities, and historical displays, including a pop-up museum. The vehicles you see maintain the bridge, like the zipper machine that moves the barrier on the bridge, will also be on display along with other equipment.

Participants can also take one of two free SEPTA shuttles back and forth.

Registration is requested so the Delaware River Port Authority has an idea of how many to expect and can plan accordingly.

Construction on the bridge, first known as the Delaware River Bridge, began in 1923 and was completed in 1926. It was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.

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