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A self-guided audio walking tour of Concord, about six kilometers from Main Street to The Wayside. It starts at the Thoreau-Alcott House, where Thoreau died, and the Concord Free Public Library, then reaches Monument Square, where a plaque marks the jail in which Thoreau spent the night that became Civil Disobedience. The story of April 19, 1775 runs through Wright Tavern, where the minutemen gathered and the British set up their headquarters, the Old Hill Burying Ground, with the grave of John Jack, the Old Manse, and the North Bridge itself, where British soldiers fired first and Major Buttrick ordered the militia to fire back. Beside it stand the 1836 Battle Monument and Daniel Chester French's Minute Man, and across the road the Robbins House tells of Caesar Robbins and Concord's African American families. The walk ends on Authors' Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and along Lexington Road: Emerson's house, the Concord Museum, Orchard House, where Little Women was written, and The Wayside.
16 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 35 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 7 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Thoreau-Alcott House, Concord Free Public Library.
Monument Square, Wright Tavern, First Parish Concord, Old Hill Burying Ground, Old Manse, North Bridge, 1836 Battle Monument, Daniel Chester French's Minute Man statue, Robbins House.
Authors' Ridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson House, Concord Museum, Orchard House, The Wayside.
The 1747 tavern where more than 150 minutemen and militia gathered on April 19, 1775, and where the British then set up headquarters.
The 1770 parsonage overlooking the battlefield, where Emerson drafted Nature and the Hawthornes cut inscriptions into the window panes.
The reproduced bridge on the crossing where British soldiers fired first and the militia's answering volley forced the British to retreat.
A two-family farmhouse of about 1823 tied to Caesar Robbins, now a center for Concord's African American and antislavery history.
The ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with the graves of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott, where visitors leave pencils.
The Alcott home assembled from older houses by Bronson Alcott, where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women at a desk her father built.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 16 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 16 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Concord — the North Bridge and the Authors' Town, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
16 narration points, including Monument Square, Wright Tavern, Old Manse, North Bridge and 1836 Battle Monument. That is about 23 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 16 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.