Leading outdoor history walking tours of your site or town can draw in new audiences, deepen community engagement, and help visitors appreciate historic resources in the world around them and your organization’s role in preserving and interpreting them. But designing good tours is different from putting together an exhibit or indoor public program, even if you’re sharing similar information.

Tours can be multi-generational or tiered by age; topic specific or more general; a relaxed ramble or a long hike; a small group or a whole class; and involve photos, oral histories, technology, and more. Like all of your offerings, they need to be accessible, appropriate, and engaging, but with the added considerations of weather, time of year, terrain, construction, and other logistics.

Leading outdoor history walking tours of your site or town can draw in new audiences, deepen community engagement, and help visitors appreciate historic resources in the world around them and your organization’s role in preserving and interpreting them. But designing good tours is different from putting together an exhibit or indoor public program, even if you’re sharing similar information.

Tours can be multi-generational or tiered by age; topic specific or more general; a relaxed ramble or a long hike; a small group or a whole class; and involve photos, oral histories, technology, and more. Like all of your offerings, they need to be accessible, appropriate, and engaging, but with the added considerations of weather, time of year, terrain, construction, and other logistics.

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