Franklin’s Footsteps Colonial Walking Tour

Our guide Brian McCann did a fantastic job! Very memorable tour, thank you Brian!

As previously expressed in other reviews, you know how much I love people wearing period costumes. If you’ve got 90 minutes to spare, you should definitely try this walking tour on for size. Our tour guide was really knowledgeable and brought us all over the old part of Philadelphia for a great tour. We stopped often to listen to 2 – 3 minutes of history provided by our tour guide at each stop.
We walked all over the Old City to talk all about our Founding Fathers, the Revolution and the start of the United States. It’s a great tour to take if you’re just arriving in Philadelphia and haven’t really done anything else yet. Our tour guide took us into the Liberty Bell Center to see the bell, gave us a talk about it outside (the workers inside wouldn’t let us stop in there to discuss). We went to a couple of parks and walked on the grounds of Independence Hall, but tickets to that aren’t included on this walk, so we didn’t go in. We proceeded to see the country’s first stock exchange, taverns, Founding Father’s residences, churches, etc.
He even threw in some older history (like a former house of Edgar Allen Poe) and information about sports. Our tour guide was definitely knowledgeable and gave a nice tour. At times I’d even say he was a bit over-​enthusiastic, which is fine since this was a tour four out-​of-​towners. He even played to our group, which was nice. We were a bunch of French Teachers visiting Philly for a conference, so he threw in a lot of history about our relationship with the French and showed us some famous French spots around town. Awesome!
You can get tickets right at the Independence Visitor’s Center if you’re interested.