Group Bus Tours
Explore Buffalo provides step-on docents who will come on your group’s bus to give a bus tour of Buffalo.
Please note that Explore Buffalo does not provide transportation; this must be arranged by the group. We can provide contact information for local bus companies upon request.
Bus Tours:
Starting at $150/hour per docent
Tour Logistics:
After requests have been processed, groups will receive a tour information document with details on their specific tour. This document is the official confirmation of your tour booking. At that time group organizers must provide Explore Buffalo with the day of tour contact info,
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Bus Tour Options
- Points of Interest: AKG Art Gallery, Buffalo History Museum, City Hall, Curtiss Building, Delaware Mansions, Electric Tower, Ellicott Square Building, First Presbyterian Church, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House, Goldome Bank, Kleinhans Music Hall, Richardson Olmsted Complex, St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Waterfront
Buffalo Highlights (Can be customized to your group’s interests)
The “Buffalo Highlights” tour is a wonderful overview of our city with a blend of history, architecture and current sites of entertainment and shopping. Guests will be introduced to the city’s downtown architecture, waterfront, local commercial districts, and cultural institutions that make Buffalo such a unique place to live.
City of Light
Experience Buffalo through the eyes of the narrator of Lauren Belfer’s historical novel, City of Light, which is set in Buffalo at the dawn of the twentieth century. The bus tour will include many of the sites mentioned in the book. It is not a pre-requisite to have read the book to enjoy the tour! We will cover the history of Buffalo’s gilded age including a drive down Lincoln Parkway, stops in front of the AKG, History Museum, Richardson Complex, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural site, a drive along Delaware Avenue and into downtown Buffalo.
Rolling with FLO: Olmsted in Buffalo
The father of the public park movement in America, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (FLO) was brought to Buffalo in 1868 for his far-sighted belief that parks, parkways, and residential communities were essential social institutions with great humanistic appeal. With his partner, Calvert Vaux, he left an indelible mark on our city that is still the most complete Olmsted parks and parkway system in the USA. This tour touches most of what FLO and his firm accomplished in Buffalo.
This bus tour examines Delaware, Martin Luther King, Front, South, and Cazenovia Parks. In addition, we travel his parkways, and circles, examine public and private landscapes, and experience pocket parks and “once-were” parks with remaining artifacts. The tour covers multiple Buffalo neighborhoods (Lower West Side, Downtown, South Buffalo, East Side), so there will be discussion of architectural highlights along the way. There will be several opportunities to get on and off the bus, and to use restroom facilities.
This tour can be offered as a 2 hour or 3 hour tour. The 2 hour tour does not include South Buffalo.