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A panoramic view of the harbor
Learn how New York City's revolutionary past has influenced its resilience.
 SUMMER RANGER-GUIDED TOURS! 
Tours run through September.
Space is limited.
 Self-guided tours 
Free audio narration and map available for download soon
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Walking Tour

The New York Freedom Trail

Explore Revolutionary War era New York and learn how the city's enduring spirit is perhaps influenced by those harrowing years.

Take this seasonal National Park Service Ranger-guided tour, led on a group headset system and also hear audio commentary from noted experts including; Mike Wallace, author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 and Chris Moore, historian at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. To explore on your own, download our self-guided audio tour, written and narrated by New York Times reporter Sam Roberts. On your tour you will:

  • See Bowling Green where colonists tore down the statue of King George III after the Declaration of Independence was read.
  • Stand at Fraunces Tavern where proprietor Samuel Fraunces aided the rebels in their plot against the British overlords.
  • Visit Federal Hall, site of the first capitol, where George Washington was inaugurated and the Bill of Rights drafted.
  • Go to Trinity Church a symbol of New York's resilience, rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1776.
  • Stroll through St. Paul's Chapel, which dates to the 1760's and see Washington's pew.

ROUTE
Begins at at Federal Hall; concludes at World Trade Center site. About 90 minutes long.

TICKETS
Ranger-guided tours of The New York Freedom Trail

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Tours run 11am-12:30pm on Saturdays. Price $12.
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June 12 • 19 • 26         All sales are final. However, the tour may be cancelled in the event of severe weather conditions. Should that occur a refund will be issued within 5 business days of the scheduled tour. For information on weather related cancellations on the day of your tour, call (212) 825-6990 and ask to speak with a ranger.
July   3 • 17 • 24 • 31
August   7 • 21 • 28
September      4

PARTNERS: This is an official Gateway to America Tour created by the Harbor Conservancy and the National Park Service in collaboration with The New York Times Community Affairs Department. Gateway to America tours begin downtown and on New York Harbor -- the place that has shaped our heritage from the time of the first explorers, to successive waves of immigrants, shipmasters and pleasure-boaters propelling the city's growth into the nation's most populous and most vibrant.

SPONSORS: The Tiffany & Co. Foundation is among the founding sponsors of the Harbor Conservancy. Their generous grant was matched, in part, by federal funds to produce this tour. The tour is also made possible through the generosity of American Express.