D.C. Emancipation Day Walking Tour

April 11, 2024

Honor D.C. Emancipation Day with a walking tour that starts where Black Washingtonians originally celebrated their freedom from enslavement: Franklin Park in downtown D.C. Starting in 1866, thousands of Black […]

Duke Ellington’s D.C. Walking Tour


Duke Ellington’s music is one of the cornerstones of jazz. He is considered the greatest jazz composer of the 20th century. Before he achieved fame in Harlem nightclubs and eventually […]

Walking Through History at Walter Reed Walking Tour


When Walter Reed Army Medical Center was merged with Bethesda Naval Medical Center in 2011, the Shepherd Park campus in Ward 4 began a new era in its storied history. […]

French Connections of Georgetown Walking Tour

April 1, 2024

France and Washington, DC have a very special connection, and Off the Mall Tours is offering a walking experience in honor of the French Market, that will show the many […]

French Connections of Georgetown Walking Tour


France and Washington, DC have a very special connection, and Off the Mall Tours is offering a walking experience in honor of the French Market, that will show the many […]

Women Who Changed America Walking Tour

February 22, 2024

They founded organizations, they sponsored legislation, they blazed trails and suffered trials. For generations, women living and working in Washington, D.C. have defied expectations and surmounted discrimination to increase equality, […]

Women Who Changed America Walking Tour


They founded organizations, they sponsored legislation, they blazed trails and suffered trials. For generations, women living and working in Washington, D.C. have defied expectations and surmounted discrimination to increase equality, […]

Theodore Roosevelt Island Walking Tour


Join a Washington Walks guide and a local naturalist for an exploration of the living memorial to America’s 26th president: Theodore Roosevelt Island, situated midstream in the Potomac River between […]

STRUGGLE AND TRIUMPH: BLACK HISTORY ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE (Washington Walks)

February 8, 2024

When Washington, D.C was dubbed “Chocolate City” in the early 1970s, the title reflected its status as the first majority-Black city in the U.S. At that time, the nation’s capital […]

March on Washington Walking Tour

July 28, 2023

Walk the route taken by the 250,000 demonstrators who arrived in Washington, D.C. from across the country to attend the August 28, 1963, “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” […]