diff --git a/pandas/io/parquet.py b/pandas/io/parquet.py
index 1ab311516fa02..a044cfcdf6a01 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parquet.py
@@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ def read_parquet(path, engine="auto", columns=None, **kwargs):
         URL schemes include http, ftp, s3, and file. For file URLs, a host is
         expected. A local file could be:
         ``file://localhost/path/to/table.parquet``.
+        A file URL can also be a path to a directory that contains multiple
+        partitioned parquet files. Both pyarrow and fastparquet support
+        paths to directories as well as file URLs. A directory path could be:
+        ``file://localhost/path/to/tables``
 
         If you want to pass in a path object, pandas accepts any
         ``os.PathLike``.