Forest Park: The urban hiking tour

Original Zipline course

This tour is our most popular tour! The Original Course has six ziplines and is 80 feet above the ground.

The Painted Ladies and Victorian Homes of Alamo Square Tour

Explore the Western Addition’s famous microhoods, from the Fillmore District to trendy Divisadero Street. Bask in the beauty of the Victorian Painted Ladies, immortalized in the 1980s sitcom, “Full House.” Discover the rich history behind San Francisco’s iconic City Hall. Step inside Chateau Tivoli, an elegant mansion in the Alamo Square historic district. Hear true stories of the eccentric residents who built lavish homes in the area in the 1870s and 1880s. Visit landmarks like San Francisco’s first African American church and Alamo Square Park. Learn how this area sprang to life after the 1906 earthquake and fires. Get pointers to find all the Instagram-worthy photo ops along the way.

Best of the City walking tour

From cast iron-fronted buildings to the grandly disastrous post-modern Portland Building, much of Portland, Oregon’s history can be told through the buildings and street layouts; most importantly, the prioritization of parks throughout the city center. How did the city’s early urban planners decide on their layouts? How do modern designers look at the past and plan for the future? Who are the people these streets are named for? What’s with all the roses? It’s not a dry history: full of back-room deals, early deaths and greed; and then there were the hippies! We’ll also discuss the modern rise of radical activists in Portland and how that is intimately connected to the city’s history going back more than a century. Two hours, two miles