Bus Tours

City of Light Bus Tour: Explore Buffalo’s premier bus tour, this tour is based on the novel by Lauren Belfer that is set in Buffalo at the turn of the twentieth century. This tour is offered regularly year-round.

Discover the unique sgrafitto style of Jozef Slawinski, a Polish-born and Italian-trained mural artist whose richest body of work exists in the Buffalo Niagara region, on our Buffalo Murals Bus Tour: The Art of Jozef Slawinski on Friday, September 18.

Sites of a City: Charles E. Burchfield’s Buffalo: In collaboration with the Burchfield Penney Art Center, discover the urban landscapes of Buffalo through the eyes of watercolorist Charles Burchfield who lived in the Buffalo area from 1921 until his death in 1967. View the paintings or sketches at each site to better understand the love he felt for his adopted city on this bus tour on Saturday, October 3.

On Friday, October 23, discover the remarkable women who helped shape Buffalo on our exclusive one-time-only Women of the Queen City Bus Tour & Lunch at the Twentieth Century Club! Travel through the Queen City aboard a comfortable motorcoach as an Explore Buffalo docent brings to life the stories of influential activists, entrepreneurs, artists, philanthropists, and other trailblazers who left their mark on our community. Begin and end at the historic Twentieth Century Club, where you’ll also enjoy an exclusive tour of its beautiful Green & Wicks-designed clubhouse and conclude with an elegant lunch in one of Buffalo’s most distinctive historic settings.

The Urban Farm Day Bus Tour, sponsored by the Western New York Foundation, takes place each year on Urban Farm Day and visits a selection of the participating urban farms, highlighting local growers in a variety of spaces and inspirations. Urban Farm Day 2026 was on August 15 – check back in spring 2027 for details about Urban Farm Day 2027.

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