Traveling to Boston: Activities and Tours for Visitors

Coming to Boston for the first time? This city, so rich in history and culture, offers no end of opportunities to visitors for recreation, entertainment, education, relaxation- you name it.

Boston, having recently celebrated its three hundred seventy fifth anniversary is one of the oldest, most historic cities in the United States, and they know it. The city’s pride in its history is apparent in every neighborhood. Plaques and historical markers are as common in the city as bank branches. Stroll along the Freedom Trail and you’ll see.

And let’s start right there with the Freedom Trail, a must for any visitor. The Trail is a self-guided tour of many of Boston’s historic sites, which allows visitors to follow a 2.5-mile long red line painted (and in some places in laid in brick) along the sidewalks and across streets. Beginning at the Boston Common, the trail leads you through the Massachusetts State House with its gold dome roof, the Park Street Church and Granary Burying Ground and King’s Chapel and Chapel Burying Ground (both burying grounds contain the graves of politicians and historic figures), the site of the first public school, the Ben Franklin statue, the former site of the Old Corner Bookstore, the Old South Meeting House, the Old State house, the site of the Boston Massacre, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere’s house, the Old North Church, Copp’s Hill Burying Ground, the USS Constitution, known as “Old Ironsides”, which was commissioned by George Washington and remains the oldest commissioned war ship, Charlestown Navy Yard, and the ends at the Bunker Hill Monument.