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Distance: beat his time up 72 steps, then follow the city that kept his places.
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Distance: beat his time up 72 steps, then follow the city that kept his places.
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The Rocky Steps
There are 72 stone steps, designed largely by Julian Abele, one of America’s first Black architects.
The steps are free. The museum opens Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 10am–5pm and Friday 10am–8.45pm; closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Rocky Statue
The sculptor A. Thomas Schomberg made the eight-foot statue for Rocky III.
At the top of the steps, by the museum’s east entrance. Free.
South 9th Street Italian Market
In the training scenes of Rocky and Rocky II, Rocky runs past, and then with, the onlookers here; Adonis does the same in Creed.
Stalls and shops keep their own hours. The Italian Market Visitor Center opens Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am–5.30pm and Sunday 10am–3pm.
Pat’s King of Steaks
In a brief scene in the original film, Rocky meets the loan shark Tony Gazzo here before the fight with Apollo Creed.
Open 24 hours, every day.
The Victor Café
It plays Adrian’s, the restaurant Rocky runs, in Rocky Balboa, Creed and Creed II.
Dinner nightly: Monday–Thursday 5pm–9.30pm, Friday 5pm–11pm, Saturday 4.30pm–11pm, Sunday 4pm–9.30pm. Book ahead.
Mighty Mick’s Gym, now Lost Time Brewing
Mighty Mick’s, the gym in Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa and Creed, never existed; only its outside was filmed here.
A brewery taproom: Monday 5pm–10pm, Tuesday–Thursday 3pm–10pm, Friday 3pm–11pm, Saturday noon–11pm, Sunday noon–9pm.
Front Street Gym
In Creed, Rocky moves Adonis to this real gym; Adonis’s run behind Rocky’s van ends here, and the locker-room scene of Rocky’s diagnosis was shot here.
A working boxing gym, open Monday to Friday 4pm–7pm. It is a private business: call ahead or book a tour.
Max’s Steaks
In Creed, Bianca brings Adonis here for his first cheesesteak on their first date; next door, in the Eagle Bar, she teaches him the word jawn.
Sunday–Thursday 11am–1am, Friday and Saturday 11am–2am.
Laurel Hill East
Rocky visits Adrian’s and Paulie’s graves here in Rocky Balboa, Creed and Creed II; the prop headstones stand next to the Gatehouse, in Section M.
Free, every day. Gates 7am–7pm from spring to autumn clock change, 7am–5pm in winter. The headstones are next to the Gatehouse, in Section M.
Philadelphia Zoo
In Rocky II, Rocky proposes to Adrian in the snow in front of the tigers, with a real tiger behind them.
Daily 9.30am–5pm, last entry 4pm. Buy dated tickets online in advance.
Boathouse Row
Boathouse Row and Kelly Drive can be seen in Rocky Balboa.
The clubhouses are private. See them from Kelly Drive or across the river, best after dark.
Independence Hall
Independence Hall is a backdrop in Rocky II’s training run.
Tours are free; when tickets are needed, reserve them on Recreation.gov for a $1 fee.
Rittenhouse Square
Rocky and Adrian think about the baby on the way here, in Rocky II.
A public square in Center City.
Penn’s Landing and the Moshulu
In Rocky II’s training montage, Rocky runs through a riverfront industrial tract here and past an old ship.
The riverfront is open to walk; the Moshulu is a working restaurant.
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Distance: beat his time up 72 steps, then follow the city that kept his places.
Mighty Mick’s Gym, now Lost Time Brewing ↗Penn’s Landing and the Moshulu ↗Pat’s King of Steaks ↗Rittenhouse Square ↗The Victor Café ↗Philadelphia Zoo ↗Front Street Gym ↗Boathouse Row ↗Laurel Hill East ↗The Rocky Statue ↗Max’s Steaks ↗The Rocky Steps ↗Independence Hall ↗South 9th Street Italian Market ↗
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