About Parks on Tap

FCM Hospitality first wants to acknowledge and share the City of Philadelphia’s Safer at Home strategy, For those who do venture outside, one of Philadelphia’s most beloved summer traditions, Parks on Tap. Parks on Tap is operating for it’s fifth season of supporting Philadelphia’s parks. This season will even offer extended hours into the early Fall!

For 2020, the travelling outdoor beer garden that gives back adapted to two stationary beer garden locations at Fairmount Horticulture Center (100 N. Horticultural Drive) and next to the famous Waterworks by Boathouse Row. Due to high demand and their proven ability to mandate safety and social distancing standards, the mobile beer garden has been put in drive! The Horticulture Center Parks on Tap (the largest Parks on Tap location to date) will packed up on August 23rd and is going to park at FDR Park in South Philadelphia!

Each location offers fresh food, beers on tap and non-alcoholic beverages set in an outdoor environment with comfortable chairs and clean restrooms. The program has proven to be more important than ever as residents have been looking for hyper-local outdoor options with ample room for social distancing during the global pandemic. In order to keep patrons and employees safe, look for a number of safety measures that will also include additional cleaning measures, ability for contact tracing, and other measures as prescribed by the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania. For more information on our safety plan, please click here.

Parks on Tap grounds are all self-contained within roped boundaries, providing its own power, bathrooms, food and drink trucks, seating, shade and lights - all without use of or dependency on existing park facilities. This means more money will be available for park improvements and future programming.

Parks on Tap is family (and fido) friendly. Hours for each location can be found in the location descriptions HERE. Parks on Tap is free to join, but a daily sign in is required as information will be used for contact tracing if it becomes necessary. Food and drink are pay-as-you-go. Seating is first come, first served.

Parks on Tap kicked off in 2016 as a way to engage the Philadelphia community and give back to the neighborhood parks. A portion of all proceeds are donated to Fairmount Park Conservancy to help restore and maintain Philly’s parks.