One of the best things we did in Boston was our Fenway Park Tour. Of course, we are big baseball fans, but this historic building is worth seeing for any visitor to the Boston area. There are a variety of tours, and we chose to do the basic Public Tour since we were also going to two baseball games in Fenway Park. Don’t skip visiting this iconic spot. Make sure to take a tour at Fenway Park.
Fenway Park was opened in 1912 during the same week that the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the oldest Major League ballpark and has undergone many changes and renovations, making it the oddest ballpark in use today. The 39 foot “Green Monster” wall standing in left field is just 310 feet from home plate, which is considerably shorter than most ballparks. Fenway also holds a lot of baseball history to fans of the game. Be prepared, though. If you enter Fenway Park, you just may walk away a Red Sox fan.
Tours can be reserved for Fenway any time of year. The public tour lasts one hour and begins at the souvenir shop across the street. Despite their being tours given multiple times throughout every day of the year, these tours often sell out, so we recommend reserving in advance. Here is the link to reserve a tour at Fenway.
On your tour of Fenway, you’ll stand on the Green Monster and see the best seats in baseball. You’ll see the grandstand with historic seats that are a hundred years old. You’ll walk into the press box that looks out over the field. Your tour guide will also introduce you to both Pesky’s Pole and Fisk’s Pole. You’ll even see the Red Seat in right field where Ted Williams’s 502 foot home run knocked out a poor spectator who’d fallen asleep.
One part of the Fenway Park tour that you can’t see any other way is the mini-museum under the stadium. We found the items in this museum to be quite amazing. We saw the base that Dave Roberts stole in 2004. There is also Babe Ruth’s bat and glove. Most amazing of all, we saw 100 baseballs signed by players from every World Series winning team from 1920-2020. (It would be 101 except there was no World Series in 1994 due to the strike.) This collection is beyond belief. Of course, there were Gold Gloves, cleats, and bats everywhere, too.
Boston has so many things to see, but Fenway Park is definitely at the top of our list. We are huge Red Sox fans, and we still learned a bunch of new facts about this historic stadium. We loved taking the Fenway Park public tour, and would recommend it to anyone who is a baseball fan. And if you can go to a game, we recommend that, too! You can also read about our visit to the Boston Tea Party Museum, which was another favorite activity in Boston.
