Our New York walking tours let you experience the city up close, exploring its diverse neighborhoods, biggest attractions, and even lots of hidden gems on foot — just like a native New Yorker.

While bus tours are great for covering ground quickly (we do those too), walking gives you unique photo opportunities and authentic encounters you can’t get behind a window or windshield. They also typically take less time, so while a bus tour might take six hours, most walking tours can fit into a morning or afternoon, leaving more time open in your schedule.

If you’re looking for the best walking tours, NYC has plenty to choose from. We might be biased, but we think the best NYC walking tours are the ones that let you experience the city like a local — with a local. 

To get a truly unique, authentic perspective of NYC life, try one of our insider tours:

• The Broadway and Times Square Insider Tour is led by professional Broadway actors and directors.
• The Wall Street Insider Tour guide is a former finance professional who knows the ins and outs of the Financial District.

If you’re looking to explore New York like a native, our neighborhood and historical NYC walking tours offer deep dives into various parts of the city:

• See the best of the city with our NYC in a Day Walking Tour.
• Our Lower Manhattan Walking Tour covers Ground Zero, Wall Street, and more!
• Take our scenic High Line tour in Chelsea.
• Get inspired on our Greenwich Village Tour at the birthplace of American counterculture.

Visit three neighborhoods on our SoHo, Little Italy, and Chinatown Tour.

Our NYC walking tours run rain or shine. Regardless of the weather, our guides will keep things fun and lively. Rainy days are also a great time to beat the crowds and see a quieter side of the city.

If there’s extreme weather and we have to cancel, you’ll get a full refund.

Not every walking tour in New York includes attraction tickets, but many of them do. Several of our most popular walking tours in NYC include admission to key attractions near the areas you’re already exploring. Here are a few of our favorites.

• Rockefeller Center Walking Tour, which includes admission to Top of the Rock
• Metropolitan Museum of Art Highlights Tour, which includes your skip-the-line tickets to the Met
• Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour, which includes round-trip ferry tickets to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

For some tours, such as the Hudson Yards Tour, you can enhance the experience with optional attraction admission as an upgrade.

You’ll uncover several hidden gems on our NYC walking tours that most visitors — and even locals — don’t get to see. Highlights include:

• The Campbell, the old-world-style speakeasy hidden inside Grand Central Station, part of our NYC in a Day Tour
• Underground tunnels beneath the New York Public Library, which you’ll learn about on our Midtown NYC Walking Tour
• Stone Street, the first paved road in the United States, where you’ll walk on our Wall Street Insider Tour

We can’t give away every secret, but each tour offers plenty of surprises.

Most of our New York walking tours fit well into a morning or afternoon, lasting from 75 minutes to two hours. But we do have longer NYC walking tours, like our NYC in a Day Tour.

For some tours, you may also need to allow time for transportation, such as the ferry ride back on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Tour. And if you’ve updated a walking tour to add on a self-guided visit to an attraction, be sure to allow extra time to enjoy it after the guided tour portion of your experience ends.