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?)

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.