Walking Tours
Our Walking Tours
Boston By Foot tours offer opportunities for visitors and locals to explore Boston’s cityscape and discover its history with a passionate and knowledgeable guide. Core tours are offered on a daily and weekly basis during the April-November tour season, while others are offered monthly or quarterly. All tours are available upon request as a private tour at any time.
View tours by frequency, topic or by schedule by accessing our calendar. Each tour page contains detailed information about each of our offerings. We look forward to sharing our love of Boston with you!
PLEASE NOTE: Registration for all public walking tours closes one hour before tour start time.
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Daily & Weekly
Beacon Hill Cobblestone Street with Brick Homes
Beacon Hill
Walk past the stunning Federal and Greek Revival row homes along Beacon Hill's charming streets
Maureen donkey
Boston By Little Feet
This child's-eye view of the Freedom Trail is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)
Night view of the north end Boston
The Dark Side of Boston
Hear tales of misery, misfortune and murder - all based on true historic events!
Old State House Boston
Heart of the Freedom Trail
The perfect introduction to Boston’s Revolutionary history
Paul Revere's house in Boston's North End
The North End: Boston's Immigration Gateway
Explore Boston’s oldest neighborhood and discover the charm of this unique, compact city space
Scollay Square new
Reinventing Boston
Discover how Boston’s urban landscape has changed as you uncover the clues left behind
The Green Dragon Pub in Boston
Road To Revolution
Ideal for history lovers and those interested in our nation’s Revolutionary past.
Monthly & Quarterly
Front of the Boston Art Museum
Art, Architecture and Gardens
Stroll along a section of the Emerald Necklace designed by landscape architect Fredrick Law Olmsted
victorian buildings in boston's back bay
Back Bay’s Victorian Architecture
Explore Boston’s Back Bay, home to one of the United States’ richest collections of art and architecture
Boston's Bay Village Street in Spring
Bay Village
Discover this hidden neighborhood that has maintained its residential charm amidst the surrounding city
Boston Public Library
Becoming Back Bay
Learn why Boston's Back Bay is considered a marvel of 19th Century engineering
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
Painting of Benjamin Franklin
Ben Franklin: Son of Boston
Celebrate the life of Boston-born Benjamin Franklin by visiting his homes and haunts in Colonial Boston
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
Burned buildings and homes in boston after the great fire
Boston Reborn: After the Great Fire of 1872
Explore Boston's rebirth after the Great Fire of 1872, a more costly disaster than the Chicago Fire the year before
Boston Chinatown Gate
Boston’s Chinatown
Visit one of Boston’s most vibrant neighborhoods, and one of the few surviving Chinatowns on the East Coast
Gilded Age photo
Boston's Gilded Age
Learn about Boston's upper-class during the late 19th century - their favorite haunts and their social activism
victorian women in affectionate pose.
Boston’s LGBTQ Past
Travel in the footsteps of Boston’s 19th and 20th century gay and lesbian friends
re-enactors of British loyalists in boston
Boston’s Loyalists
Hear the stories of Bostonians who remained loyal to the British crown
Bullfinch Triangle
Bulfinch Triangle
Find out how this transportation and entertainment hub is also becoming a thriving residential neighborhood
Boston Harbour viewed from above the custom house
Change and Response: Boston’s Architecture
Take an in-depth look at the people, trends and events that led to Boston's architectural evolution
Commonwealth Avenue
Visit the heart of Victorian Boston while strolling along the city's Grand Boulevard
Middlesex County Courthouse
East Cambridge
Travel across the Charles and visit a fascinating neighborhood called one of America's industrial powerhouses
Boston Freight Terminals
Fort Point and Seaport: The Evolution of the South Boston Waterfront
Explore two waterfront neighborhoods with the same roots but a completely different look and feel
Gravestone reading Memento Mori
Grave Undertakings
Explore Boston's burying grounds and learn about the customs surrounding death in Puritan New England
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
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
view of a graveyard by day
Johnny Tremain’s Boston
Relive a young boy's adventures in Colonial Boston based on the prize-winning, coming-of-age novel
Lincoln Street, Leather District
Leather District
Discover what was once the hub of New England’s leather and shoe industries at the turn of the 20th century
Cover of Little Women
Louisa May Alcott’s Boston
See Alcott’s Boston homes and hear the stories that inspired the beloved author of Little Women
Statue of Paul Revere in front of the Old North Church Boston
North End By Little Feet
This child's-eye view of Boston's North End is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)
Emily Greene Balch
Remarkable Women of Jamaica Plain
Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood was home to remarkable women who changed the course of the history
Boston Aquarium during construction
Rethinking Boston Brutalism
Explore the historical and social context of an architectural style that has put Boston on the international map
mural of birds on boston's kennedy greenway
The Rose F. Kennedy Greenway
Stroll through Boston's beautiful new “People’s Park” that annually attracts over a million residents and visitors
Rowe's Wharf architectural rendering 1984
Rowes Wharf: Sensationally Good City Making
A visionary concept in urban planning, Rowes Wharf remains at the center of 21st century Boston
Annual Events
Massachusetts State House
Footloose on the Freedom Trail
Our special annual 3-hour July 4th event!
lit pumpkins in the dark
Beacon Hill with a BOO!
For more than 30 years, this tour has been part of any great Halloween celebration in Boston.
New for 2024
Betances Mural
Art Introspective: Copley Square to the South End
New for 2024! Discover a trove of unknown and underappreciated works of art
Boston City Hall
Boston City Hall
New for 2024! Explore both the inside and outside of Boston's historic City Hall
Boston Common
Boston Common: Past Lives and Hidden Stories
New for 2024! Join us to discover the many lives of Boston Common and its people
Kendall Square
Kendall Square's Innovation Transformation
New for 2024! Learn the history of this innovative neighborhood
Samuel Adams statue
Sam Adams' Boston
New for 2024! Explore the life and influence of patriot Samuel Adams
Shaw Memorial
Slavery and Abolition in Massachusetts
New for 2024! Explore Massachusetts' long and complex history of slavery
Wang Theatre