Top California Self-guided Tours

With Crazy Dash, you'll use an app to explore Roseville in this exciting scavenger hunt! Use an app to find things around the city in any order you want, take photos, and collect points. At the end, take a look at the rankings to see your score compared to others across the country. All scavenger hunts have a live remote host that will help via chat. Crazy Dash is our most easy-going scavenger hunt. Come join us in Roseville today!

See more of San Francisco than you could with public transportation while enjoying the fun of riding around in a tuk-tuk with this private experience. Meet your guide in Fisherman’s Wharf and be whisked across town as your guide regales you with stories about San Francisco. Highlights include cruising through Chinatown and North Beach, admiring the Golden Gate Bridge and the city skyline, and stopping for photo ops to remember your adventure.

Challenge yourself on the rope ladders, balance beams, and ziplines at the Catalina Aerial Adventure park. Suspended in a eucalyptus grove on Catalina Island, this aerial obstacle course is a convenient adventure destination and is easy to fit into your busy vacation schedule. Plus, it has three different difficulty levels to choose from, ensuring there is something to challenge everyone from kids to athletes.

Have a blast exploring Monterey with this app-led scavenger hunt and enjoy the magic. You’ll get to see the most entertaining sights in town, while learning about its history and culture, but you’ll have to answer trivia questions and solve challenges to unlock each new prompt. Enjoy this with a group of 10 or fewer people.

Ensure a hassle-free arrival at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)—and make getting to your area hotel a breeze—thanks to this private transfer service. After landing, meet your driver, receive their help with your bags, and relax on the journey to your destination. This convenient transfer serves downtown San Francisco, as well as Oakland, Berkeley, and Sausalito.

Skip the traditional walking tours and make San Diego your own personal game board with a smartphone scavenger hunt that leads you through the city’s scenic waterfront, historic sites, and atmospheric downtown neighborhoods. Solve a series of exciting puzzles and challenges, compare your scores to other teams, and enjoy the freedom to explore San Diego at your own pace, with plenty of time to eat, drink, and sightsee.

Enjoy a fully flexible and independent way to explore San Francisco with this private bike rental service, available for shorter durations or up to a full day. After departing from Fisherman’s Wharf, choose to pedal your way across the Golden Gate Bridge, to iconic attractions such as the Painted Ladies of Alamo Square, and much more. A provided map and suggested bike routes help you navigate with ease.

Our very unique, immersive adventures are the only ones of their kind. We, unlike other companies, provide your very own remote, interactive, live host to assist and encourage you along through your phone. We are an Austin, TX-based global custom event design company offering scavenger hunts and other events in 300+ cities in North America and beyond. Our specially hand-crafted adventures are equal parts tour, creative challenge, detective hunt, and social experiment! Guests get to discover in an alternate reality our favorite hidden gems off the beaten trail and creatively interpret fun art, history, and culture clues - for points! They get to enjoy fame and glory while appearing on our website’s international leaderboard, no matter what their score. They get to essentially race other teams in other cities, even if they don’t have competitors who have signed up in their city that day. Get ready to discover unusual oddities, laugh out loud, and make the experience your own!

Join our one-of-a-kind scavenger hunt and explore Long Beach in a new, unique way. Each session is aided by an interactive remote host, who sends challenges to participants via a phone app. When the challenges are accomplished, the team scores points. Check your status against competitors on the app’s international leaderboard. This handcrafted adventure is part tour, part detective hunt, part social experiment, and part creative challenge, with lots of fun in between.

Discover Los Angeles on two wheels—and have the freedom to explore at your own pace—with this 1-day bike rental from West Hollywood. Choose from a city bike, mountain bike, road bike, or electric bike rental, all of which come with necessary safety gear and equipment. From there, opt to pedal through the Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica, join the crowd at Venice Beach, cruise the Walk of Fame, and more.

Taste your way through San Francisco's Chinatown, and discover its rich culture, on this walking food tour with a small group. Explore the roads less-taken, and enjoy five different tastings, which can include dim sum, roast duck, and more. Along the way, hear interesting stories about the history of the neighborhood.

Learn all about Carlsbad on this scavenger hunt that takes you around the city looking for objects you need to collect and performing tasks along the way. This is all guided by an app, and you can even make it a competition by checking your rank against others participating in the hunt. There’s also a remote guide who will be available to chat and help out if needed. Enjoy this day exploring Carlsbad.

Enjoy a quirky, family-friendly, and one-of-a-kind way to explore Carmel with this interactive scavenger hunt game. Upon booking, submit your smartphone details; your game will be hosted by a remote live guide. Set off by car or by foot and head to a variety of locations across town, where you can interact with locals and take part in special challenges, all in an attempt to win points and climb up the leaderboard.

Make Santa Barbara your own gameboard with an interactive, app-led scavenger hunt adventure. Use a smartphone to follow a series of locally-themed clues that lead to fun challenges with your friends and family. Trace a route past historic monuments, seaside neighborhoods, and hidden gems to get an insider's look at the city. Rack up points to compete against prior scavenger hunt teams, or simply enjoy the self-guided tour at your own pace.

One of the best ways to explore Santa Barbara is by bike; avoid becoming fatigued and rent an electric bike to discover the coastal city. Cruise around the pier, Stearns Wharf, Point Castillo, 1000 Steps Beach, and many more points of interest. Electric bikes are easy to use and come with three different modes to help get you around town.

Skip the limitations of fixed itineraries and explore San Francisco on your own terms with a flexible bike rental. Starting from Fisherman’s Wharf, you can create a route that matches your interests, whether that means riding along the waterfront, exploring city neighborhoods, or cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito. Choose the pace and sights that suit your day while enjoying the freedom to discover more than you would on foot.

Turn San Diego into treasure-hunting grounds on this self-guided scavenger hunt through Balboa Park. Combining the fun of the Amazing Race with the information of a walking tour, simply use your smartphone to solve clues and complete challenges as you make your way among well-known and hidden parts of Balboa Park—an ideal choice for families, friends, or work colleagues visiting San Diego. Receive a direct entry ticket for seamless access to the adventure.

Our very unique, immersive adventures are the only ones of their kind. We, unlike other companies, provide your very own remote, interactive, live host to assist and encourage you along through your phone. We are an Austin, TX-based global custom event design company offering scavenger hunts and other events in 300+ cities in North America and beyond. Our specially hand-crafted adventures are equal parts tour, creative challenge, detective hunt, and social experiment! Guests get to discover in an alternate reality our favorite hidden gems off the beaten trail and creatively interpret fun art, history, and culture clues - for points! They get to enjoy fame and glory while appearing on our website’s international leaderboard, no matter what their score. They get to essentially race other teams in other cities, even if they don’t have competitors who have signed up in their city that day. Get ready to discover unusual oddities, laugh out loud, and make the experience your own!

If you’re going to do a sightseeing tour of San Francisco by bus, make it a memorable one. Book a 1970s-era Volkswagen bus for your private party of six and wind through the city’s top attractions with a personalized guide on a 4-hour tour. Travel into streets that larger vehicles cannot pass through as you explore Chinatown, North Beach, the Castro, the Mission, downtown and more. See the homes of The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, while listening to ‘60s classics. Hotel transport included.

Arrange for a stress-free ride to San Francisco International Airport (SFO)—and benefit from an itinerary that's tailored your needs and schedule—with this private departure transfer service. Meet your driver at your address in downtown San Francisco, Oakland, Sausalito, or Berkeley. Then, relax on the journey to the airport aboard a sedan or SUV, depending on the size of your group.

Experience Sacramento in a different way with this interactive and fun Operation City Quest scavenger hunt. Download the app to your phone, grab your team and head out to downtown Sacramento. Gain points as you solve riddles, find different objects around the city and perform challenges, while competing against other teams around the country.

Zombie Scavengers hunt stands out by blending real-world urban exploration with an exciting zombie apocalypse narrative. Its uniqueness lies in the complete player freedom; unlike standard hunts, you get to choose your own route and the order of tasks across the city, making it a strategic exercise. The immersive experience is powered by an app that tracks your survival points from finding supplies and completing fun, themed photo/video challenges. Crucially, it includes a remote survival guide who assists you via chat, and your score is compared in real-time on a national leaderboard, turning your local adventure into a country-wide competition.

Explore stunning San Francisco by bike with pre-booked bicycle rentals. Choose from two-hour, half-day, and full-day options, and pick up your bicycle right in the center of the city. Maps are included, plus a basket, helmet, and bike lock, leaving you free to get down and explore. Family-friendly options include baby seats and trailers, and eBikes are available for a comfortable ride.

Discover San Francisco at your own pace with a full-day standard or electric bike rental. Start your self-guided adventure at Fisherman's Wharf and easily pedal past all the sites on the top of your list: visit crooked Lombard Street, North Beach, Haight-Ashbury, or even ride across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito. This rental allows you to create your itinerary as you explore the beloved City by the Bay.