Ghost Bus and Parking Information Easy, Inexpensive Parking, A Trolley Ride and Real Ghost Stories!
Availability:
Every night of Terror Behind the Walls.
Multiple trolleys loop between the secure parking lot and the Penitentiary.
Cost:
Just $10 per car, including open-air trolley ride with real ghost stories!
Trolley Start Time:
6:30p.m.
Trolley End Time:
30 minutes after last tour.
Storytellers?
Yes, a storyteller on each trolley will tell the group about real ghost
sightings in Philadelphia, including the story of the Eastern State
locksmith who had a very eerie experience in a prison exercise yard!
Location:
Broad and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia
(about twelve blocks from the Penitentiary)
Directions to the Ghost Bus Parking:
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From the North, South or East:
Take I 95 South (if coming from the North) or I95 North (if coming from the South) to Rt 676 West.
Stay in Right Lane.
Exit Rt 676 West at “Broad Street/ Rt 611.” This will put you on 15th Street, heading South.
Get into the left lane. Drive 1 block, cross Vine Street (West) to Vine Street (East). Turn left onto Vine Street (East).
Cross Broad Street.
Turn Left onto 13th Street.
Drive 9 blocks to Spring Garden Street. Turn Left onto Spring Garden Street.
Drive 11/2 blocks, (crossing Broad Street) to Ghost Bus Parking.
Directions for Drop Off at Eastern State Penitentiary (No Parking)
Location:
22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue, just five blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Map of the extended area (click to enlarge)
Map of the immediate area (click to enlarge)
Directions from the North or West: - Take Interstate 76 (the Schuylkill Expressway) to Exit 344 (Old Exit 38), which is Interstate 676, also know as the Vine Street Expressway.
- On I-676 take the first exit, "Benjamin Franklin Parkway/ 23 Street."
- Take the first left onto 22nd Street.
- Pass the Philadelphia Museum of Art (on your left) and continue five blocks north, to Fairmount Avenue.
Directions from the South or East: - Take I-95 to Exit 22 (Old Exit 17) and follow Interstate 676 West.
- Get off at "Art Museum/Benjamin Franklin Parkway" Exit.
- At the top of the ramp, turn right onto 22nd street.
- Pass the Philadelphia Museum of Art (on your left) and continue five blocks north, to Fairmount Avenue.
Bus Service to Eastern State Penitentiary is convenient to SEPTA bus routes: 48, 43, 33, 32, 7.
- Take the 7, 32, or 48 to 22nd and Fairmount Avenue.
- Walk east one block and the entrance to Eastern State Penitentiary is on the left-hand side of Fairmount Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets.
- Take the 33 to 20th and Fairmount.
- Walk west one block and the entrance to Eastern State Penitentiary is on the right-hand side of Fairmount Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets.
- From the 43 bus, get off at 21st and Spring Garden Streets and walk north.
- Fairmount Avenue is the next major street, parallel to Spring Garden Street.
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