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Walking Tours

Our Walking Tours

Explore Boston’s history, neighborhoods, and architecture with Boston By Foot! Our walking tours are led by passionate, knowledgeable guides who bring the city’s stories to life for visitors and locals alike.

Many tours run daily and weekly from April through November, with special topics offered throughout the season. Private tours are available year-round and can be tailored for groups of all kinds.

Browse the list below to find tours by category, or view our calendar to search by date. Each tour page includes full details. We look forward to walking Boston with you!

PLEASE NOTE: Registration for all public walking tours closes one hour before tour start time.

Boston Social History Tours

Map of old Shawmut Peninsula overlayed on Modern Boston

Before Boston: Shawmut Peninsula through 1630

Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston

tour duration90 minutes
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Josephine St. Pierre Rupin, Martin Robinson Delaney, William Cooper Neil, Frederick Douglas

Black Voices: Writers for a 19th Century Revolution

Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery

tour duration90 minutes
tour distance0.79 mile
likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines
Boston Common

Boston Common: Past Lives and Hidden Stories

Join us to discover the many lives of Boston Common and its people

tour duration90 minutes
tour distance1.1 miles
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines
victorian women in affectionate pose.

Boston’s LGBTQ Past

Trace the stories, individuals, spaces, and events that shaped queer life in the city

tour duration90 minutes
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines
Gravestone reading Memento Mori

Grave Undertakings

Explore Boston's burying grounds and learn about the customs surrounding death in Puritan New England

tour duration90 minutes
mostly flat surfaces and little to no inclines
view from Pickney Street Boston

The Hub of Literary America

Journey to Victorian Boston and see where writers and poets including Emerson, Alcott and Thoreau gathered

tour duration90 minutes
likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines
Star of David stained glass in Circular Window

Jewish Beacon Hill

Learn where Boston’s Jewish West End residents worked, lived and worshipped - including The Vilna Shul

tour duration90 minutes
tour distance0.75 mile
likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines
Women's suffrage poster 1915

Road to the Vote: Boston Suffragists

Boston's places, people and protests that helped win the vote for women

tour duration90 minutes
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines
Shaw Memorial

Slavery and Abolition in Massachusetts

Explore Massachusetts' long and complex history of slavery

tour duration90 minutes
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines
A Woman Booster for the Trade Union League

Working Women: Boston Women Find Their Voice

Learn about the women who led Boston’s women’s trade unionism and suffrage movements

tour duration90 minutes
tour distance1.1 miles
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines
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