Kingston Historic Walk: Explore City Landmarks

Embark on a self-guided scavenger hunt through Kingston, Ontario’s historic center. Solve challenges and discover the city’s attractions along the way. No scheduling needed!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Kingston City Hall - Searching for activities in Kingston, Ontario? Strolling through the historic center offers a chance to explore its rich history and discover its attractions. Solve challenges at each step to uncover your next destination.
    Embark on a journey from City Hall to City Park, following the waterfront and passing by various parks,…
What's Included
  • Smartphone scavenger hunt (works via mobile site)
  • Over 20 interactive challenges
  • Bilingual experience in English and French
What's Not Included
  • Internet access is required on your smartphone to complete this activity. Wifi is not enough.
  • This tour is strictly exterior sightseeing, you need not enter any of the locations seen on it.
  • Admission is not included for any location, as you do not need to enter them for this activity.
Additional Information

Searching for activities in Kingston, Ontario? Strolling through the city’s historic center offers a chance to explore its rich history and discover its many attractions. Engage in challenges at each step to uncover your next destination.
The journey takes you from City Hall to City Park, following the waterfront and passing by various parks, museums,…

Location
Kingston City Hall
Ontario Street
Once you're standing outside Kingston's City Hall, and have completed the transaction with our website, log in with your account (My Account / Scavenger Hunts) and click on the blue button to begin your scavenger hunt.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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205jennw
Jul 9, 2025
great idea! - After reading reviews regarding the difficulty getting to the directions for the scavenger hunt I was a little worried about buying this. We did anyways and very glad we did. The company reached out to me after my purchase and advised to either sign up on a link they provided or they could do it for me if i provided my email. I gave them my email and within mins we were good to go. The weather didn't cooperate so sadly we didn't finish. We got more than half way and myself and kids really enjoyed this! Def will look at doing more of these in other cities we visit!
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Summersunshine2017
Jul 1, 2024
Fun way to explore Kingston - Fun way to explore Kingston with teenagers. Not too hard, not too much walking, interesting info. I am glad the other reviewers wrote about how to access the tickets or I would have thought it was as a scam with all the emails/ trying to access the tour. Also they said there was going to be a bonus question at the end about the number of red plaques, but there never was. Otherwise it was great!
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Evelyn_t
Oct 4, 2024
Fun! - Super fun activity! It took a few minutes for the Viator email to come through to give the coupon code for the actual website to redeem the hunt, but just be patient and it will work. The final challenge didn’t work. The website gave me an error and when I tried to go back to the previous page, it took me to the home page. But whatever. Still had a fun time doing something a little different with coworkers while we were all out of town for work.
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Stephanie_p
Aug 7, 2024
Fun walking activity - Very good tour. Good history lesson. Finding parking can be hard. We ended up parking on the street. A little difficult to start it but we did figure it out.
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David
Aug 17, 2023
Frustration with true booking but the Tour was a lot of fun. Family enjoyed it. - It was a battle of frustration booking and getting the instructions to start this tour. It should be made clearer that purchasing here will require you to purchase and use a coupon on the actual site which the tour instructions start! I found the information in my email and after wasting 30 minutes trying to figure it out leaving me angry with my family who were also getting impatient. Not a great start to a family day. Other then the rocky start, we truly enjoyed the tour. It was a lot of fun deciphering the codes and find the answers. What I truly enjoyed was that it took us to places I normally, even as a tourist I would not have noticed. Kingston has a lot of history and although we learned it all in High School, now as an adult and seeing how a lot of people are wanting to erase it, coming to actually walk and see where the birth of our beautiful country started makes you appreciate how there still are buildings and monuments still being preserved. I would recommend this tour. Really makes you look up. We did encounter a problem. We did count the red plaques but were never prompted to enter the number. And on the Cartwright answer, in the clue it should state that numbers don’t count.
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W9677fibrandonm
Jun 30, 2023
An interesting way to learn about the history of the city - I love how interactive this experience was. The only puzzle I was confused on was counting the number of features of the facade of the pumphouse to get a 4-letter word. I think that one needs clearer instructions or a new way of reaching that word. Everything else was really fun!
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Colette
Jul 16, 2025
Search and Spin - The information provided is interesting. The places of interest are fairly close and not too difficult to find. However, it took 30 min and a phone call to the company to get the app running. It doesn’t help that most of downtown had 1 bar on the phone so it kept cutting out or spinning.
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Bradley_h
Mar 16, 2025
Not accessible for those with walkers wheelchairs or strollers - Wish it was fully accessible for those with disabilities. I.e. wheelchairs. We found it very difficult to get around and a lot of going back-and-forth. We were unable to do most of the park scavenger hunt due to the non-accessibility.
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Lisa_h
Jul 28, 2024
Redundant walking - Lots of needless back and forth walking. Interesting facts. Quests were somewhat tedious. Only made it 41% thru before group lost interest.
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Ren_as696nd
Jun 29, 2025
Disappointing experience - Very disappointing French experience from start to finish! First of all, after several attempts to validate our purchase on the supplier’s website, we had to call and wait to receive instructions by email. The process is not automated, let alone clear. Then, several errors in the questions or answers of the French version (e.g. having us find an i instead of a t to constitute the word sought, having us count the red signs we cross on the route but never asking for the answer). As for him, the last clue was supposed to be in front of City Hall but he was rather behind! And the ultimate: after answering the last question, we find ourselves on an error page! Pay $34.50 for this??? Besides, this activity should be called a rally and not a treasure hunt...
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From $26 (Per Group)
up to 15 guests
1 - Traveler
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).