The Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile red-brick walking trail that begins at the Boston Common Visitors' Center and ends in Charlestown at the USS Constitution.  The Freedom Trail leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, each one a historic treasure of American Revolutionary history. Created in 1958, the Freedom Trail today is a unique collection of museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond.

The Freedom Trail Foundation and the City of Boston continue to work to preserve this perfect introduction to Colonial Revolutionary Boston. The Trail takes the visitor to 16 historical sites in the course of two or three hours and covers two and a half centuries of America's most significant past. A red brick or painted line connects the sites on the Trail and serves as a guide.

• The Boston Common
• Massachusetts State House
• Park Street Church
• Granary Burying Ground
• King's Chapel and Burying Ground
• Benjamin Franklin Statue/Boston Latin School
• Old Corner Bookstore
• Old South Meeting House
• Old State House
• Site of the Boston Massacre
• Faneuil Hall
• Paul Revere House
• Old North Church
• Copp's Hill Burying Ground
• Bunker Hilll Monument
• USS Constitution

The 2.5 mile route does include some steep inclines that can be quite challenging.  An alternate route that avoids steep inclines and shows alternate, wheelchair accessible routes to several Freedom Trail sites is provided below.