PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that turns some curbside parking spaces across the city into temporary parks, is returning to D.C. on Friday. The event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Like last year’s, this PARK(ing) Day will be on the smaller side this year, with 12 pop-up parks. In contrast, the 2019 event featured 32 parklets — including one called “Pool Party” that featured an actual pool. (Though maybe it was more of a pool-let: It was 2-by-4-foot.)

This year’s parklets will pop up in Wards 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7. They include an outdoor garden reading room hosted by Eastern Market Main Street, free yoga classes in a “garden and art oasis” on Kennedy Street NW hosted by Uptown Main Street, and a partnership between the Department of Parks and Recreation and George Washington University giving away vegetable seedlings and more in NoMa.

D.C.’s Department of Transportation has published a map with a suggested bike route (in the spirit of the day, bicycle is the department’s recommended form of transportation for the event).

Originally started in San Francisco in 2005, PARK(ing) Day has since been held in cities across the globe with the intention of celebrating public space and all its potential. It happens every year on the third Friday of September. John Bela, who helped install the first PARK(ing) Day installation in San Francisco, has called the pop-up parks “the gateway drug for urban transformation.”

Bela told Bloomberg CityLab that the holiday is about imagining other uses for spaces that are typically occupied by cars.

“The is an act of generosity; it wasn’t necessarily about protest, but it was about demonstrating an alternative to storing cars in parking spaces,” he said.