Salvatore Pachella Field

Are you looking for a public park to come play with your dog, kids, or self?
If so, I recommend this Fairmount Park location.
Stop by at any hour during the day and you’ll more than likely run into a dog walker or two who are utilizing the ample space to get Fido to chase long ball after long ball, and many a weekend you’ll find a car caravan pulling in to meet at the lower lot for a Wissahickon hills mountain biking staging point. Weekday evenings and early weekends the fields occasionally play host to soccer, baseball, softball, and football practices and games, and you can even run into the random kite flier, golfer, and the oh-​so-​rare ultra light plane enthusiast. There’s even a pavilion on the top level for outdoor gatherings, from the picnic to the 100+ brouhaha.
On the topic of parties (and this ideal location), you can snag a mutli-​hour field permit for around $ 35 (though you aren’t likely to be chased out when your time is up). The pavilion I mentioned can be used with or without permit, unless someone else has one (pavilion permit is $ 125 from 10 – 6, but I believe you then wouldn’t need the field permit, unless someone else was there for that, also), and it has a large fire place, four picnic tables, multiple parking stops that function as concrete benches, and bathrooms (plus, recently there have been porta-​potties as well). On top of that, at all the jamborees I’ve been to here, the Rangers only came out when it became dark, and even then just to lock the bathrooms (the ladies they left open without me even asking, they just requested I lock up when I left) and the park gate.
The Pavilion is a cool party spot with a huge grass field directly in front of it, a children’s baseball field to the side of it, two larger ball fields down the hill from it (both levels of fields are large enough to support a soccer game at the same time as baseball is going on, and you could easily throw up a volleyball net for a game at the same time), and the Wissahickon Valley bike and hiking trails directly behind it (with multiple trail entry points starting at the field).
As for getting here with public transportation, there is a SEPTA route 27 stop at the upper and lower end of the field on Henry Ave (upper end is Livzey Lane and the lower end is Valley Ave.): the 27 runs from Plymouth Meeting mall down Ridge Pike and Henry Avenue to and through Roxborough, onto route 76, and finally down Broad street to Washington, then back.
check out a google maps image and see for yourself: