Self-Guided Walking Tours in United States (2026)

United States has 21 self-guided audio walking tours on Roamer across 5 cities: Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Every tour is free to start, covers history, architecture, culture and art, and plays GPS-triggered narration so you explore at your own pace.

Cities with self-guided walking tours in United States

City	Tours	Themes
Boston	4	History, Architecture
Chicago	4	History, Architecture
New York	5	History, Culture, Architecture
Philadelphia	4	History, Culture, Art
Washington, DC	4	History, Culture

Where to walk in United States

• Boston (4 tours): Brick row houses on a hill the city cut down, a Back Bay built on ground Boston made, and a red line on the sidewalk linking the buildings it refused to lose. Across the Charles, Harvard's Yard and MIT's experiments in stone, concrete and steel. Four walks at your own pace, from the Common to Kendall Square.
• Chicago (4 tours): Steel skeletons under terra-cotta skins on a square mile that learned to build tall after a fire took everything. A river the city reversed to keep its drinking water clean. A lakefront held open by century-old lawsuits and a 1909 plan still half-finishing. The American city that treats rebuilding as a discipline.
• New York (5 tours): Cast iron above your head, schist under your feet, yellow cabs threading numbered streets, a skyline that hasn't stopped climbing for a hundred years. The American city that wrote the script every other one follows.
• Philadelphia (4 tours): A second-floor room where the country was argued into existence across two summers eleven years apart, a sixteen eighty-two grid that became the template for every American city to follow, a Ninth Street market still called Italian where the storefronts now read in four languages, and four thousand murals on rowhouse walls. The city of the argument made physical.
• Washington, DC (4 tours): A four-mile axis of marble monuments built by more than two centuries of compromise committees, a Library of Congress next door to row houses where staffers live, a U Street that was the cultural capital of Black America until nineteen sixty-eight and is still recovering. The American city designed by argument.

How much do walking tours in United States cost?

Every tour is free to preview. A single tour is $4.99 for lifetime access. If you are visiting more than one city, a 30-day pass covering every tour everywhere is $19.99, or a 7-day pass is $12.99. There is no group booking, no fixed start time, and no tip.

Museum guides in United States

Besides the walks, Roamer has independent audio guides for the inside of these museums, room by room, with no route to follow.

• Art Institute of Chicago audio guide (Chicago): Seurat, Van Gogh, Hopper and Grant Wood, rooms built an inch to the foot and a rebuilt trading floor, in a museum that bridges the railroad tracks.
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) audio guide (New York): The Starry Night, Monet's Water Lilies, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and the soup cans. MoMA's collection floors, at your own pace.

Related walking tour guides

In-depth city guides: Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC.

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