NPS Boston
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About NPS Boston
Discover Boston National Historical Park, home of the Freedom Trail®, and Boston African American National Historic Site, home of the Black Heritage Trail®, with this official National Park Service app. See the premier historic sites associated with the colonial struggle for independence and the birth and growth of the nation.
On your next visit to Boston, use it to explore many of the most important cultural and historical sites in the United States— Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Old North Church, Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill Monument, Bunker Hill Museum, Dorchester Heights, and the Charlestown Navy Yard including USS Constitution, the USS Constitution Museum, and USS Cassin Young. Every site along Boston’s Freedom Trail® is featured.
Boston African American National Historic Site is comprised of the largest area of pre-Civil War black owned structures in the U.S. Learn about the homes, businesses, schools, and churches of a thriving black community that, in the face of great opposition, fought the forces of slavery and inequality.
- Check out historic sites and events with text, audio, images, and video.
- Choose thematic tours, staff picks, or build your own tour.
- Explore the official National Park Service map of Boston that includes large font sizes, easy to distinguish walkways, and dimensional buildings.
- By tapping the “Locate me” icon you will always know where you are.
- Walking directions – Get from one place to another by following a line on the map or a list of directions. Estimated walking times are given.
- Discover alternative modes of transportation.
- Find other national parks and historic sites in the region and across the country.
On your next visit to Boston, use it to explore many of the most important cultural and historical sites in the United States— Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Old North Church, Paul Revere House, Bunker Hill Monument, Bunker Hill Museum, Dorchester Heights, and the Charlestown Navy Yard including USS Constitution, the USS Constitution Museum, and USS Cassin Young. Every site along Boston’s Freedom Trail® is featured.
Boston African American National Historic Site is comprised of the largest area of pre-Civil War black owned structures in the U.S. Learn about the homes, businesses, schools, and churches of a thriving black community that, in the face of great opposition, fought the forces of slavery and inequality.
- Check out historic sites and events with text, audio, images, and video.
- Choose thematic tours, staff picks, or build your own tour.
- Explore the official National Park Service map of Boston that includes large font sizes, easy to distinguish walkways, and dimensional buildings.
- By tapping the “Locate me” icon you will always know where you are.
- Walking directions – Get from one place to another by following a line on the map or a list of directions. Estimated walking times are given.
- Discover alternative modes of transportation.
- Find other national parks and historic sites in the region and across the country.
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What are users saying about NPS Boston
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Useless on my phone with a 5.7 inch screen. Won't zoom on the map. Won't zoom on the tour description so it is unreadable.
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Audio cuts out whenever you turn off the screen and audio clips all ended after about 30 seconds with no information on how to get the rest.
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Fonts too small, no way to zoom the map - unusable on an HTC 10
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Update this app to work with modern devices! Fonts, map zoom, etc.
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Basic, but helpful. Crashed frequently, but not enough to be a major problem on a well marked walking tour. Would be great to get more info, but for free this was definitely a useful app.
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Everything is tiny (maps text) and there is no zoom/enlarge functionality. (needs fixing for high dpi devices, I guess)
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Unable to zoom text nor maps
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Great app, wonderful features, unreadable text.
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Very interesting app! But one major problem! Fonts are lot too small and no way to magnify.
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Awesome app! Very detailed and informative.
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Well done app. No location support but it's got a really understandable map and you are really just following the red brick road. Good information that isn't on any sign at each location and the audio tours were a neat surprise. I was pleasantly surprised
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Crashes a bunch, no gps on the map, but this app has all the information about walking through Boston's freedom trail. It may not be as good as a real guided tour, but it totally gets the job done.
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The Freedom Trail is a great walk and this app makes the Trail much more enjoyable. Production values are superb (the map is among the best I've seen). The folks who put it together really know how to make the history compelling. A must for anyone walking the Trail, and the price is right!
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Really appreciate this effort and would like to see more progressive govt service thinking like this. A little crash on my galaxy nexus but still big help today. Would love to see longer audio clips and option to email my tour to myself as PDF (for inclusion in my digital photo archive)
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I wish there were more apps like this one.
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Awesome app! Very detailed and informative.
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Very interesting, well done!
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Very well done and extremely responsive.
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Makes exploring Boston history easy!
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Could use more detail on local sites: links to wikipedia pages or other info sites, at least. Otherwise, wonderful! I recommend it to all of my visiting friends.
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Crashtastic
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Well done app. No location support but it's got a really understandable map and you are really just following the red brick road. Good information that isn't on any sign at each location and the audio tours were a neat surprise. I was pleasantly surprised