In this time of social isolation, it's more important than ever to get outside, breathe some fresh air, and feel the sun on your face. We're working with our community partners to bring you self-guided walking tours of New Haven's most beautiful and fascinating spots, bike tours that will take you down city streets and further afield to peaceful pastures, and virtual tours of your favorite museum spaces. More tours will be added throughout the spring and summer. Check back often for new adventures!
Twilight concerts at the Pardee-Morris House are a summer ritual. This year, Elm City Cycling takes you on a virtual ride from the New Haven Green to this historic home while you enjoy the music of Ed Fast & Congabop, complete with a virtual house tour.
This self-guided arboretum tour takes visitors on a 1.3-mile loop around the only arboretum in Greater New Haven to view an impressive selection of 40 plant species, with special highlights in a brochure complete with original leaf drawings from live specimens.
Hop on your stationary bike and travel north from New Haven to Cheshire and learn about plans to connect the former rail trail to Northampton, Mass, then visit historic Locks 12 and 14 along with our bike tour partners Elm City Cycling.
Or click on the link below for a map of the ride that you can enjoy on your own.
Step away from Zoom and hop onto your stationary bike to explore Gather New Haven's farms, gardens, and preserves.
Or click on the link below for a map of the ride that you can enjoy on your own.
Step away from Zoom, hop onto your stationary bike and ride along with Elm City Cycling to Hindinger Farm.
Or click on the link below for a map of the ride that you can enjoy on your own.
Step away from Zoom and hop onto your stationary bike to explore the New Haven Shoreline.
Or click on the link below for a map of the ride that you can enjoy on your own.
Hop on your stationary bike and explore New Haven's rich and varied water resources, its rivers, estuaries and harbor. Learn about the ways we enjoy and protect these fragile assets in a time of climate change and increasing ecological awareness.
Or click on the link below for a map of the ride that you can enjoy on your own.
Be part of the conversation in this public art installation that asks the public to respond to prompts on disks!
In this gallery tour, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle takes us through the history of the massive building that housed avant-garde artists, skateboarders, and a succession of music and adult-entertainment clubs in the decades following the factory’s closure.
The Chapel West Special Services district commissioned a series of murals to celebrate 31 New Haven Notables, and the map below is your guide to finding them all. Download the map, set out on a walk, and see if you can spot all 31 murals.
This map was co-created by students in the African American and Latinx History class at Metropolitan, a local New Haven high school. It includes sites from across the city, spanning hundreds of years, from before European colonization of this land, to the present.
The Festival has partnered with the Shubert to present a "behind the curtain" look at the historic Shubert theater with a series of Virtual Tours hosted by Kelly Wuzzardo, Director of Education & Outreach Initiatives at the Shubert.
Stroll through downtown and see storefronts transformed by artist Francisco del Carpio-Beltran.
