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Recommended: 100+ Walking Tours This Weekend

  • September 24th 2010

by Will Smith

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This weekend Cultural Tourism DC is hosting its semi-annual WalkingTown DC, a two-day event packed full of free walking tours of the District’s neighborhoods. More than 100 tours are scheduled in all corners of the city, making for a great opportunity to check out neighborhoods where your daily life might not otherwise take you. It’s also perfect for visiting some of the more off-the-beaten-path places that you may have read about on UrbanTurf but never ventured to. (Have you ever been to Brookland? Hillcrest? Florida Market?)

Recommended: 100+ Walking Tours This Weekend: Figure 1
A past tour of Blagden Alley/Naylor Court, courtesy rockcreek

The first tours start at 9am Saturday morning and the last ones finish at 5:30pm Sunday evening. The website has the schedule broken down by day: Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning, and Sunday afternoon.

In addition to the 90+ walking tours, there are 11 bike tours this year (bring your own bike and helmet; Bike and Roll is offering discounts for those who need to rent a bike).

Here are a few tours that pique our interest:

Saturday Morning (see the full schedule)

  • Explore Florida Market/Capital City Market — 9-11am
  • Before Harlem, There Was U Street — 10:30am-12:30pm
  • NoMa: From the Beatles to NPR — 10:30-11:30am

Saturday Afternoon (see the full schedule)

  • 16th Street: Avenue of the Presidents — 2-4:30pm
  • Hillcrest and East Washington Heights — 2-4pm
  • Brookland: A Historic Overview — Noon-1:30pm, 1:30-3pm & 3-4:30pm

Sunday Morning (see the full schedule)

  • Rebuilding Mount Vernon Triangle — 9-10:30am
  • Capitol Riverfront: From Navy Yard to Front Yard — 10-11am
  • Shaw: Where DC Comes Together, Part 1 — 10am-12:30pm
  • The Sylvan Suburb of Takoma Park — 10am-Noon

Sunday Afternoon (see the full schedule)

  • Capitol Hill and Eastern Market — 1-3pm
  • Connecting East to West: H Street Northeast — Noon-1:30pm
  • Shaw: Where DC Comes Together, Part 2 — 1-3:30pm
  • I Heart AU: Campus Tour of American University — 1-2:30pm

UrbanTurf will definitely be attending some of these tours. Hope to see you out this weekend.

This article originally published at http://dc.urbanturf.production.logicbrush.com/articles/blog/recommended_100_walking_tours_this_weekend1/2508.

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