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Kingsessing

Kingsessing is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Kingsessing
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The place

Kingsessing is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. On the west side of the Schuylkill River, it is next to the neighborhoods of Cedar Park and Elmwood Park, as well as the borough of Yeadon in Delaware County. It is roughly bounded by the SEPTA Regional Rail Media/Wawa Line to the northeast, Baltimore Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek and 60th Street to the southwest, and Woodland Avenue to the southeast.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kingsessing

Airports
Philadelphia (PHL), 8 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 122 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 145 km
  • New York → Kingsessing
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $13–17
  • Newark → Kingsessing
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · $12–16
  • Baltimore → Kingsessing
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $12–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kingsessing

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kingsessing. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAir charter companies such as Monarch Air Group and Mercury Jets fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
  • Get inThe RiverLink and Freedom Ferry services provide travel from Philadelphia to neighboring Camden, New Jersey, between April and September.
  • Get inAccess to the other waterfront attractions, including an aquarium, is also provided by the ferry service.
  • Get aroundThose rates are as follows: Lindenwold, Ashland & Woodcrest Stations and Philadelphia: $3.00 Haddonfield, Westmont & Collingswood Stations and Philadelphia: $2.60 Ferry Avenue (Camden) Station and Philadelphia: $2.25 Travel within Pennsylvania, between Broadway and City Hall (Camden), and between PA and those two stations: $1.40 Any other trip within New Jersey: $1.60 Note that PATCO is not operated by SEPTA and uses its own fare system.

From Wikivoyage: Philadelphia, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    193 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    698 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,599 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,601 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,680 km

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Kingsessing is 5 km from Philadelphia, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.