History Ride: The Best of Buffalo by Bike
Description
Enjoy Buffalo while cruising through its rich history and architectural highlights. Far from just a boring history lesson, this tour brings the city’s past to life through unforgettable stories, humor, and local insight. This downtown tour stops at many of the city’s most well-known buildings like Buffalo City Hall, the Electric Tower, and the Guaranty Building, and shares the fascinating stories behind them. Learn about bitter rivalries, economic booms and busts, and trailblazing community activists who were instrumental in the city’s founding. From Buffalo’s heavy hitters like the Erie Canal and Pan American Exposition to lesser-known stories of Black history and working-class movements, this tour provides a deeper appreciation for the city and its place in American history.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Wild stories of Canalside, the city’s historic red light district.
Learn the story behind Louis Sullivan's masterpiece
See Buffalo's City Hall
Buffalo’s first African American community and the underground railroad.
Learn the history behind Buffalo's Electric Tower
Admission is free
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(95)
WOW!!! Best bike tour offered in Buffalo! It was 5 star plus! Mark- our guide was amazing and we couldn't believe how knowledgable and educated he was about Buffalo and its history! Two plus hours and biking, learning, laughing and having a fabulous day! Truly....I will come back again and again and recommend it extremely highly! Thank you Mark!
Great ride with lots of very interesting stories and information about Buffalo. Learned a lot of things I didn’t know about the city I’ve lived in my whole life. Highly recommend
Great to hear, hope to catch you again!
One of the last tours of the season and did not disappoint. Leanne was our guide and was fun and informative. Learnt a lot about Buffalo. Would definitely recommend and would do a different tour if we came back.
Great to hear – thanks for taking the time to drop a review! Please do visit again
Informative and compact, no wasted time. Lots of history I didn't know and new facts on things I did. Smooth roads and good company.
Ty Ty! So glad you could join us
It was a fun ride and learning the history of Buffalo. Our tour guide, Chris, was personable and funny. He gave awesome tidbits about the city.
Thanks for joining and for the review. Safe Travels!
What a great way to spend Mother’s Day as a family! Mark, our tour guide, was both witty and wise about Buffalo. Would definitely recommend!
Awww shuck, thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words
Our tour guide was so friendly and knowledgeable! We truly enjoyed this tour and our daughter, who now lives in Buffalo will be finding new bike tours with this company!
Awesome to hear. Thanks for joining us!
We had a great time on the tour with Sarah. She was enthusiastic and was engaging with us as participants. It was only our group of four with her. You do bike on a mix of roads, bike lanes and sidewalks, but it's pretty safe. We had a few people do the e-bikes and a few on the road bikes. The bikes were good quality. They are easily found on the commercial slip in canalside. Sarah went through just enough history for a casual tour. Sign up for their newsletter as I was sent a promo code after I already bought the tour and the tour was not refundable. It could save you a few bucks. Overall great tour!
Awesome to hear. Thanks for joining us!
My husband and I took the History Ride: Best of Buffalo, and I'm so glad we did. Sarah was our guide. She selected and got our bikes ready, gave us a quick overview on what to expect and immediately launched into giving us all sorts of interesting facts. The ride itself ended up being around 7+ miles, spread out over 2.5 hours. The pace was leisurely and not hard at all. We rode mainly in bike lanes and sometimes on sidewalks, and cars were aware and respectful. We stopped often, where Sarah would tell us about the area, history, architecture. The time flew by and we not only enjoyed ourselves, we learned a lot. We got to see a lot of Buffalo during the tour.
Glad you enjoyed your visit. As always ride ... before it snows!
Did a great tour led by LeAnn along with a family of 3. We started at Canalside then went up towards downtown then Michigan St Corridor then towards Allentown to check out Theodore Roosevelt Inauguration Site and then into Front Park to get on the harbor back to our starting point. I learned a lot during this tour and weather definitely cooperated for us, wasn't too hot or cold, just perfect. Would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn history of Buffalo
Ha, thanks, Jad! That's so great to hear. Glad you could join us
