Boston Class Trip
Bring your class to Boston and step back in time to our nation’s colonial and revolutionary past.
Historic tour
4 days
3 nights
5 cities
- Overview
The Boston area is home to Harvard University, Paul Revere, and Faneuil Hall. Nearby to Boston is Plymouth, landing point of the Mayflower, Salem, location of the infamous Salem Witch Trials, and Lexington and Concord, the site of the first fighting of the Revolutionary War.
When you visit Boston your class will grow in its appreciation for and understanding of the early days of our nation, and will be inspired by the principles which made it great.
- Included amenities
- Roundtrip transportation
- Hotel accommodations
- Private deluxe motorcoach
- Tour director & local guides
- Breakfast & dinner daily
- Overnight security at hotels
- Entrance fees
- All gratuities
- 24/7 emergency support
- 9-5 (EST) travel support
- Class trip luggage tag
- More amenities added by request
- Itinerary
This itinerary is customizable
This morning we will meet our ClassTrip.com Tour Director who will be with us for the duration of our trip. We enjoy a guided walking tour of Charlestown, the oldest neighborhood in Boston. We see the Bunker Hill Monument, which commemorates one of the first battles of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and Charlestown Navy Yard, which contains the 18th Century ship the U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat. The next stop is Boston’s North End, the oldest residential area in Boston which has more recently become known as an enclave of Italian-American culture. We take time for lunch here and visit Old North Church, from the steeple of which two lanterns signaled to Paul Revere that the British were heading to Lexington and Concord by sea, setting off Paul Revere’s now famous ride. Then it’s on to the Black Heritage Trail, which commemorates the unique experiences, struggles and civic contributions of Boston’s African American community, and to the New England Holocaust Memorial. We end our day of touring at Faneuil Hall, where we enjoy dinner together.
After breakfast we travel to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the American colonists which was one of several events which stoked hostility between the Americans and the British in the runup to the Revolutionary War. While the original site of the Boston Tea Party no longer exists, the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum stand at the approximate location. We visit Lexington and Concord, where the first battles of the Revolutionary War occurred. We see the Lexington town green, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. After the engagement at Lexington, British troops continued to Concord where some crossed North Bridge to search a local farm while others remained at the bridge. When the colonists attempted to take the bridge they were fired upon by the British, and their return fire caused the British to flee. We the site of Old North Bridge, where a replica of the revolutionary-era bridge stands today. We visit Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, the final resting place of some of early America’s greatest minds. At “Author’s Ridge” we see the burial places of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. We have dinner and return to our hotel in Boston.
We begin our day at either the Plymouth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts (April-October) or the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston (November-March). The former is an outdoor, living history museum which tells the story of Plymouth Colony from the perspective of both the Pilgrims and the Native Americans of the area. The latter is housed in a building on the campus of the University of Massachusetts which contains a full-scale replica of the United States Senate Chamber. Along the Freedom Trail we will visit sites like Boston Common, Beacon Hill and the site of the Boston Massacre, and we’ll walk Newbury Street, a popular destination for shopping and dining. In the afternoon we’ll head across the Charles River to Cambridge, Massachusetts where we’ll visit Harvard Square. In this area we’ll find a bustling plaza and the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, Harvard University. We’ll have dinner together and spend the night at our hotel in Boston.
After breakfast we drive northeast to Salem, Massachusetts, home of the infamous Salem Witch Trials. Between 1692 and 1693 a series of people were accused of and tried for witchcraft in and around Salem. We’ll visit the Salem Witch Museum, the Witch Dungeon Museum, where we’ll experience a live re-enactment of a witch trial, and Gallows Hill, where we’ll take in a show which uses Disney style special effects to depict the history of the Salem Witch Trials. Afterwards we’ll move on to the House of the Seven Gables, a 1668 colonial mansion which was the inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables, before beginning our journey back home.
- Tour map
- Boston, MA
- Sights we'll see
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