City of Portsmouth Bike Tour - Visit Historic Landmarks + Sites

4.7

based on 12 reviews

| Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Features

Free Cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Instant ticket delivery

Mobile Ticket

Pickup available

Duration

1.8 hours

Wheelchair accessible

Audio guide

Live guide

Helmet
Use of bicycle

Tips and gratuity

Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Public transportation options are available nearby
Specialized infant seats are available
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

This is a great family-friendly easy tour that seamlessly blends history, architecture, public art, and local insights. Our city tour is guaranteed to satisfy your love of stories, history, and exploration. You and your guide will ride 6-8 miles in Portsmouth, along the quiet roads and into tucked-away neighborhoods, stopping...

Duration 1 Hour and 45 Minutes
Group Tour
Max 12 people in the group

1
The Hill
Highlights of the Hidden Neighborhoods of Portsmouth City View Bike Tour:

Former North End / Italian "Little Italy"
The Hill
South End and Prescott Park
Strawbery Banke
Wentworth Coolidge Mansion
Frank Jones Brewery - West End
Creek Neighborhood - Christian Shore
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
2
Kittery
The destruction and preservation hits Little Italy. There are over a dozen colorful wooden houses are squeezed up against the towering Marriot and the Hilton Hotels. The concept, in the early 1970s, was that dilapidated buildings bred ragged people. After World War II, most cities demolish thousands of "blighted" urban...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required

Strawbery Banke Museum

Strawbery Banke Museum began as a “save our history” effort by the citizens of Portsmouth. In the late 1950s, Puddle Dock, an area of dilapidated homes near the Piscataqua River was targeted for urban renewal. All the “substandard” homes in Puddle Dock — some of which dated back to the...

Duration 10 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion

Explore the beautiful Little HARBOR

Duration 7 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Brewery Lane

Franklin Jones was born in Barrington, New Hampshire in 1832. He was the fifth of six boys as well as the fifth of seven children in his family. He left home at 16 and moved to Portsmouth and worked as an apprentice in his older brother Hiram's stove store. Within...

Duration 7 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Wentworth-Gardner House

The Wentworth Lear Historic Houses are a pair of adjacent historic houses on the south waterfront in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Both buildings and an 18th-century warehouse were owned by the Wentworth Lear Historic Houses and were operated as a house museum. Only the Wentworth-Gardner house is a museum.

Duration 10 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Prescott Park

Prescott Park is a ten-plus acre waterfront park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. The land was purchased in the 1930s by two sisters, Josie and Sarah Prescott. The sisters, public school teachers, had used an inheritance to systematically purchase and clear properties along the Piscataqua River.

Duration 10 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Market Street

Visit the new Endeavor Sculpture dedicated for the Portsmouth 400th Anniversary.

Duration 10 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Hancock Street

Strawbery Banke is an outdoor history museum located in the South End historic district of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth.

Duration 5 Minutes•
No Admission Ticket Required

Major General Fitz John Porter Statue

Porter was a prominent UnionBrevet Major General during the American Civil War, celebrated for his role in the Peninsula Campaign but infamously court-martialed and cashiered for his actions at the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862. A highly regarded officer in the pre-war army, he was eventually exonerated and...