Great to hear the history of this area. We saw a great deal of the area. You should take this tour..
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Support is available via chat, email, or phone if you need help.
- Planning tools, route maps, scenic stops, and area previews included.
- Just bring your phone and headphones; the app guides your walk.
- Lifetime access: use the tour anytime and keep it for future trips.
- Works offline with GPS route guidance and automatic audio stories.
- Flexible tour: start, stop, and pause anytime during your trip.
- Private walking tour experience for your family or group.
- Access your tour in our separate audio tour app after booking.
- Hidden gems and local stories included along the route.
Excludes
- No live guide. Entrance fees, parking, food, and car rental are separate.
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Begin from 136 Water St, Plymouth, MA 02360, USA. After booking the tour, search your emails and texts for "audio tour". Your tour is VALID FOREVER, so follow these instructions NOW to finish setting up the tour while you have Wi-Fi/data. Do NOT wait until you are onsite.
Itinerary
The MA Visitor Information Center is a major stop for visitors traveling to and from Boston, Plymouth, Cape Cod, and throughout all of New England. Note: The tour is over 1 mile long, with more than 24 audio stories, and takes about 1-2 hours to complete. New, Lifetime access, no expiry. Use it anytime, on any trip, as many times as you want.
Mayflower II is a reproduction of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, celebrated for transporting the Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The reproduction was built in Devon, England during 1955–1956, in a collaboration between Englishman Warwick Charlton and Plimoth Plantation, an American museum.
Across the street and up the hill from Plymouth Rock is the historic Mayflower Society House – an 18th century home originally built by Edward Winslow, great-grandson of the Pilgrim Edward Winslow. The story of the Society House extends across three centuries. Experience its rich history on a tour where you will learn about the many influential Plymouth families who lived here and preserved this home over the years. Hear fascinating stories about the struggles of the Winslow family – Loyalists during the Revolutionary era; stand where Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lydia Jackson exchanged vows; relive the great restoration in 1898 by famous New England architect Joseph Everett Chandler, and imagine the hive of activity this peaceful house would have been when it was used as a Red Cross headquarters during World War II.
Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in December 1620.
Massasoit is a statue by the American sculptor Cyrus Edwin Dallin in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was completed in 1921 to mark the three hundredth anniversary of the Pilgrims' landing. The sculpture is meant to represent the Pokanoket leader Massasoit welcoming the Pilgrims on the occasion of the first Thanksgiving.
The park up ahead and walks toward the center. This is Brewster Gardens, named for William Brewster, one of the original Mayflower passengers.
Brewster Gardens is a bronze statue, The Pilgrim Maiden by Henry Hudson Kitson (1922), and a stainless steel sculpture honoring Plymouth’s immigrant settlers from 1700 to 2000. The Pilgrim Maiden is dedicated to the intrepid English women whose courage and devotion brought a new nation into being.
The Richard Sparrow House is a historic house at 42 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the oldest surviving house in Plymouth. The house was built around 1640 by Richard Sparrow, an English surveyor who arrived in Plymouth in 1636.
The Plimoth Grist Mill is a working grist mill located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is a reconstruction of the original Jenney Grist Mill, and it stands on the site of the original mill.
The Pilgrim Hall Museum at 75 Court Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts is the oldest public museum in the United States in continuous operation, having opened in 1824.
The National Monument to the Forefathers, formerly known as the Pilgrim Monument, commemorates the Mayflower Pilgrims. Dedicated on August 1, 1889, it honors their ideals as later generally embraced by the United States. It is thought to be the world's largest solid granite monument.
The Plymouth Antiquarian House is a historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts owned by the Plymouth Antiquarian Society. The house was built in 1809 for William Hammatt, a New England sea captain. The Hedges, a family of entrepreneurs, purchased the house in 1830 and lived there until 1919.
Exhibits in the Interpretive Centre focus on the Pilgrims, stories of their faith and values, the abolitionists and slavery, the family – the cornerstone of society.
The Jabez Howland House is a historic house at 33 Sandwich Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The oldest portion of this two-story wood-frame house was built by Jacob Mitchell in 1667 and purchased by Jabez Howland, son of Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley Howland, two of the original Pilgrims.
Plimoth Plantation is a living history museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, founded in 1947. It attempts to replicate the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by the English colonists who became known as the Pilgrims.
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While the information was good, the app was a bit tricky. Every time you stop to take a picture you get kicked out of the app and have to go back in and find your location. That gets annoying after the first 3 or 4 times. I did like the story feature where you could just read about where you are.
This was our first time to the Cape Cod area. With this year being our 250 anniversary, we knew we had to visit Plymouth. This self-guided tour was amazing. We started at the visitors center and were able to find every item on the list. The GPS guided part was great but the information that the narrator gives is wonderful.
This is not like so many tours. It was wonderful to have a digital map that actually told you where to go, began telling you about what was coming up ahead and then giving the history of what you were seeing. The information about how the "Pilgrims" and native americans came to interact was fascinating. To climb aboard the Mayflower 2 was incredible. To think that 108 passengers made the trip on this small boat in such cramped quarters was eye opening. The entire journey was easy, informative and well worth the time.
Great walking tour! So much information and LOVED the ‘Learn More’ links included at the stops. In fact when we went to other areas on our trip we searched for walking tours by your company. Unfortunately there was not one available so did a different one and it was not nearly as good.
The audio tour was somewhat confusing to follow. I’d pause it and it would start as soon as you moved. The voice in my ear made it difficult to communicate with others. Otherwise it provided helpful and interesting information. Although you could read most of the same information at the site.
Great self guided tour learning about Plymouth and the Pilgrims, and the Mayflower, & much more. Loved that we could take as much time as we wanted and not get rushed along in a big group tour.
We enjoy these self guided tours. It’s nice to be able to do side stuff during the tour and then pick right back up where you left off. This was shorter than previous ones we’ve done but was still vey informative and enjoyable.
The area is really beautiful and Spring was the perfect weather-time to visit. We feel like the audio your added so much to our visit. We all learned new information, and the system was easy to navigate. Would do it again!!!!
Easy to follow along and good information. Path is easy to follow and the stories as you're walking keep it interesting.
I had major issues with the app not starting when I would get to one of the areas. I had to keep starting it myself when I could figure out which stop I was at. It was alright for the price you pay.
The self guided tour was nice to have with information at hand. It went rather quickly and it was hard to follow the map while driving versus walking.
The beginning of the tour was great. The map was at times difficult to follow, especially when we were instructed to turn in Church Street ( which doesn’t exist). When the tour passed Plymouth Rock, the narrator spent most of the time talking about the structure over the rock, and if the narrator even mentioned the rock, we both missed it. Since there is no signage, it would be easy to miss the most important part if the tour.
We really enjoyed Lexington Battlegreen because the information at the town visitor center and the tavern, which helped make it more real. We really wish other sites would have been open to visit as well.
Good turn by turn Geo located tour of historic Plymouth. Good value for the price. Short and sweet. A nice walk through history.
We were not able to download the app so we were not able to use this on our tour. We walked inside the visitor center and they have us a map with information in multiple sites of interest. Calling customer service was not helpful. Was really disappointed with this your but did enjoy the driving tour a few days earlier.
It’s a good self-guided tour if you are in the area. I’ve done dozens of these self guided tours all over the world on a different app (VoiceMap) and this one is very expensive for the content and the stories. It should be around $7, not $15.
Visiting Plymouth in the off-season when all the museums and attractions are closed was a bit disappointing, BUT this walking tour saved the entire trip!! My fiancé and I were still able to get the Plymouth experience and history through this tour. We will definitely try others.
This audio tour was easy to use and was just enough history for my teens and tweens that didn’t want a long tour. I appreciated that it had a map, audio and also the written text so while we were at lunch I could read ahead to what we were going to do. The town is surreal and worth walking through.
Enjoyed this self guided tour, the information of historical sites were interesting. I loved how the app automatically started giving information as we reach to every sites.
Not being able to locate basically half of the landmarks thanks to terrible self guided map directions.
It was a great way to explore the area and learn more about it’s history at our own place. It was very interesting and enjoyed the stories. The app worked well and easy to use.
We enjoyed the guided tour because it took us places in Plymouth that we wouldn’t have gone on our own. We learned some additional history about the sites along the way. The information is overly simplified. Not sure who the target audience is for this tour? There is a navigation error at sites 16 and 17. When you get to the church, turn right and go up the stairs to the cemetery. Don’t go left as the map directs you to do.
The physical history that people get to see and interact with. The beauty and culture of Plymouth and the residents who take care of it. The residents are wonderfully nice. The best Clam Chowda from Cabby Shack!!!
We saw a sun fish. We didnt see any close ups of the whales so they gave us rain check tickets for up to a yr.
Having the guidance from the narrator made everything so much easier and we loved to do it at our own pace.
I liked the guys peppy voice. Couldn’t find Church St. maybe it’s not labled? Got lost after burial ground and couldn’t finish tour
Mayflower 2 and Plymouth Rock were highlights. Information didn’t really start until we walked quite a ways away from the visitor center. Starting the walk at the Mayflower would have allowed some of our party of seniors to finish the walk stead of stopping before the end. Very steep hill to climb at the end!
Short but informative explanations of each historical site. It rained halfway, so we had to do some of it driving; it would be good of the application had a way to switch to driving mode, as the modules kept on jumping from one to the next without finishing as we drive by.
Walking tour well done except some statues were difficult to find with the descriptions given. Sites were maintained very well by the City of Plymouth. One tour guide on Mayflower II began her speech then stopped to go on her break. That was not classy.
This is the cutest little town. We enjoyed the walking tour. We got a little “turned around” on the tour. It would be neat if the app could tell you when you are off course. We loved the history and even got to listen to the Park Ranger give his Rock Talk on Plymouth Rock. Great experience overall.
The walking tour was very nice. At one point (after #17) the route to the next point wasn't clear. And sometimes the narration didn't start automatically. Other than that, the tour worked quite well. I would definitely recommend it.
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