Boston in One Day Sightseeing Tour

This Boston day tour begins at Park Plaza or with hotel pickup downtown. Get ready for seven hours of prime sightseeing in and around historic Beantown.

For the morning part of the tour, it’s off to neighboring Cambridge. Drive past the high-tech campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and continue through Cambridge to Harvard University. You'll glimpse historic Harvard Yard as you drive through Harvard Square en route to nearby Lexington and Lexington Battle Green, the historic town common where the opening shots of the American Revolutionary War were fired.

Check out Battle Road Trail, part of Paul Revere’s ride to warn the Minutemen about the oncoming British troops. Also, see the homes of Louisa May Alcott, author of the novel Little Women, and essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Stop by the Old North Bridge, a historic site in the Battle of Concord, the first day of battle in the Revolutionary War.

Back in downtown Boston, head over to Faneuil Hall Marketplace, also known as Quincy Market, to buy lunch and explore the historic tourist mall for 1.5 hours. Then reboard the bus to begin the sightseeing tour of Boston.

There are over 20 sites on this Boston sightseeing tour. Visit Beacon Hill and the West End neighborhood; see the New England Aquarium, one of Boston’s premier attractions; cruise through the beautiful Seaport District; see King Street, where the Boston Massacre happened; and stop to visit the majestic USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat and America’s Ship of State.