Baked and Wired on PARK(ing) Day. Courtesy Baked and Wired.

PARK(ing) Day returns on Friday, and there will be more one-day parks in D.C. than ever.

For the uninitiated: On one day in September, a variety of groups transform metered parking spots into mini community spaces. The annual event started in San Francisco (where else?) in 2005, and has gained increasing traction here in the past few years.

This year, there are 33 official locations within the District alone—double the amount from 2014.

D.C.’s Office on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs promises free coffee at 9 a.m.—and the chance to practice your Korean, Mandarin, Japanese and Vietnamese throughout the afternoon—if you stop by their parklet at 5th and I Streets NW. In Georgetown, you can find a spot redesigned by the Urban Land Institute with modular shipping palettes, ‘green’ walls, and a one-hole mini golf course, or you can check out reclaimed railroad tracks, fresh plants, live music, and chalk outside of Baked & Wired, among others. NoMa’s seven mini-parks will include a pop-up used bookstore complete with reading nook, an REI-sponsored “urban camp,” and a “doggie beach.”

Very slowly, but surely, D.C. is starting to see tiny parks pop up in parking spots during the rest of the year, too. The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District launched the first “seasonal” parklet earlier this summer in front of 2020 K Street, Logan Circle’s Slipstream Coffee has been working to bring one to 14th Street, and Georgetown’s BID has two planned (possibly for the spring) as part of a belated attempt to make the neighborhood cool again. They are part of DDOT’s pilot program, where groups can apply for a permit to put a public parklet in a metered on-street parking space for up to one year.

Below is a map of all the official spots in D.C. The city of Rockville is also setting up a parklet, and an all-day event at Courthouse Plaza in Arlington promises a lounge space and an art installation/carnival game.