World City Guide

Tours of the City

Walking Tours
The Preservation Society gives architecture, maritime, African American and immigration history tours. Tours start at the Fells Point Visitor’s Center, 812 South Ann Street (tel: (410) 675 6750; website: www.preservationsociety.com) and are intermittent. Check for times. A self-guided Federal Hill neighbourhood walking tour brochure is also available at the visitor’s centre. Tours of Green Mount Cemetery are led by Wayne Schaumburg (e-mail: wschaumburg@earthlink.net; website: http://home.earthlink.net/~wschaumburg) on Saturdays May–Oct.

Bus Tours
Baltimore does not offer much in the way of regularly scheduled bus tours but visitors can explore the city aboard a Baltimore Duck - a WWII amphibious vehicle. The tour is a bit silly but it covers land attractions and then takes a splash in the Inner Harbor for a watery view of the city (tel: (410) 727 3825; website: www.baltimoreducks.com). Departs from the intersection of Conway Street and Light Street.

Water Tours
For cruises of the harbour area and Chesapeake Bay, a key tourist attraction in its own right, contact Harbor Cruises (tel: (800) 695 2628 or (410) 727 3113; website: www.harborcruises.com) who offer breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or moonlight cruises, the Bay Lady, Lady Baltimore or Prince Charming. The Clipper City (tel: (410) 837 6700; website: www.clippercity.com) offers tours around the harbour on a replica 1850s topsail schooner. Tours depart from the dock near Harborplace, Inner Harbor.