Top Kingston Walking Tours

Uncover Kingston’s strange, funny, and surprising side on this 90-minute walking tour from the creators of The Haunted Walk. Hidden Kingston is built around the stories that never make it into history class: duelling doctors, a homegrown sea serpent, trickster bank robbers, and a capital mistake that helped shape the city’s fate. Our storytelling guides deliver each one with the craft, energy, and humour that have made The Haunted Walk a Kingston favourite since 1995. This isn’t a facts-and-dates tour. It’s the version of Kingston that locals quietly love, and visitors never see coming. • 90-minute guided walking tour through Kingston’s historic core • Strange, funny, and surprisingly true stories delivered by expert guides • A light-hearted alternative to a traditional history tour • Great for curious adults, families, first-time visitors, and locals • Dog-friendly, leash required • From the creators of The Haunted Walk, a Kingston storytelling favourite since 1995

Discover Kingston’s spooky side—and tread carefully, in case you run into any wayward spirits—on this ghost stories walking tour. Pick from multiple evening start times, and meet your costumed guide in central Kingston. You’ll pass by some of the city’s key historical landmarks, including Kingston City Hall and the Kingston Public Market, and can soak up the after-dark perspective. As you go, hear spooky stories about Kingston’s macabre and supernatural past.

There are few places more historic, charming, and haunted in Canada than Queen’s University. There are eerie tales of student grave robbers, professors reaching out from the beyond, heists gone wrong and streets shrouded in mystery. We’ve never told these stories before and can’t wait to share them with our guests. You won’t hear spine-tingling and heart-pounding tales like these on the regular campus tours. Join us for the Ghosts of Queen’s University and graduate with a degree in the supernatural!

Explore Kingston’s historic charm on a walking tour led by a local historian that brings Canada’s first capital city to life. Equipped with headsets for clear commentary, stroll through Downtown to see landmarks like St. George’s Cathedral and Kingston City Hall. Along the way, gain insight into the city’s rich past, from colonial roots to architectural highlights, all while taking in the picturesque streets and waterfront views.

Eat your way through six kitchens on four continents in under a mile and a half, then find out why a garrison town of limestone walls and 1840s shopfronts hides this much cooking behind unmarked doors. You'll try a Montreal-style bagel, hand-rolled and honey-boiled before it meets the oven, steamed Himalayan dumplings from a family kitchen on Princess Street, a fried lentil doughnut sunk in South Indian sambar, extra virgin olive oil poured side by side with small-batch balsamic, and ice cream from a counter scooping since 1986. Then there's the stop we won't name until you're standing outside it. Your Secret Food Tours guide lives in Kingston, and knows which unassuming door hides the best cooking in town, why this city of 130,000 holds more Feast On certified restaurants than anywhere else in Ontario, and how a 19th-century market square still feeds the people who cook here.