Historic Georgetown Walking Tour
This page provides details of our free Historic Georgetown Walking Tour, including tips on directions, times and sights covered.
- Tour Description
- Meeting Point + Schedule
- GPS-Led Audio Tour
- Neighborhood Guide
- Ghosts of Georgetown Tour
- Other Free DC Tours
- Things to Do in Washington DC
TOUR DESCRIPTION:
Georgetown’s shady lanes and cobblestone streets reflect another side of the Capital.
It is Washington’s genteel, southern side where Presidents lived when they were just Congressmen.
It’s where the Founding Fathers laid out the plans for the city on a tavern bar top, and where historic churches offer services.
Not to be confused with our Ghosts of Georgetown Tour, our Historic Georgetown tour focuses on the houses and sites of a town that still invokes the image of refinement and class after 300 years.
Sights we see or talk about on the tour
- Old Stone House
- Kennedy Homes
- Martin’s Tavern
- Georgetown’s Historic Churches
- Georgetown University
- Tudor Place Mansion
- Diverse architecture and history of this city older than D.C
We will discuss the history and development of this neighborhood, along with some of its secrets!
Note: We will view the above sites and homes from the street and will not be entering any residences.
Our own tour guide Canden has published a book on the wicked side of Georgetown history!
Wicked Georgetown: Scoundrels, Sinners and Spies, and a pictorial history using vintage photographs, Images of Georgetown.
Tour information
Reservations: REQUIRED. Click here to reserve.
When: View our Calendar
- March – October: This tour runs 3-4 times a week at 10 am and Saturdays at 430pm, just in time for a great dinner or show.
- November – February: This tour runs on weekends only.
Where: Tour begins at the Georgetown Waterfront Park at the corner of 31st and K St NW.(map)
GPS Address: 900-998 31st St NW, Washington, DC 20007, Washington, DC 20007. Note there is no building here, look for your guide at the corner in the park!
Purchase a guaranteed parking spot in advance near the tour’s starting point with SpotHero.
Duration: Tour lasts approx. 2 hours. Total walking is about 2 miles.
Cost: This tour is free to take, and you get to decide what, if anything, the tour was worth when it’s done. A name-your-own-price tour is a tour for anyone’s budget.
GPS Enabled Self Guided Tour of Georgetown
Can’t make one of our guided tours? No problem, we have recorded some of our best tour guides giving their tours and put them on a GPS enabled app.
Each tour offers an off-line option to view the map and hear the audio of each walk so that you don’t need to have GPS maps running with the app.
Here is how it works:
- Download our free DC walking tour app on (iTunes) or (Android).
- Download any audio tour(s).
- Enjoy the tour(s).
Even if you don’t download any tours, you will still have access to valuable information on sightseeing.
Listen to a sample of the tour.
We also offer GPS-led audio tours of:
- The National Mall
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Embassy Row
- Old Town Alexandria
- Georgetown University Campus
- East Georgetown
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About the author
Canden is a historian and tour guide in Washington DC with 3 published books about the city. She has written for HuffPost Travel and has been featured in the Washington Post, WTOP, and numerous other DC papers. She's also been interviewed by the Travel Channel and Discovery Family Channel. Canden is the host of our podcast, Tour Guide Tell All
With a M.A. in History from University College London and a B.A. in History from Elon University, she is an authority on D.C. history, and has led tours in the city for over 10 years. She currently resides in DC, but has also lived in London and South Korea, and has travelled to 25 countries. Her two children (both under the age of 3) have their passports and own frequent flier accounts.