Fenway Park Tour

See this Famous Ball Park Up Close

 Want to walk in the footsteps of the Red Sox?  Tour Fenway Park

Are you planning to take a Fenway Park tour? 

Perhaps the game you want to see during your visit to Boston is sold out and touring Fenway Park is the only way you're going to get inside the stadium.

Perhaps you can still get tickets - but cheap seats are sold out, and who wants to spend $90 for a pricier perch when you can tour Fenway for much, much less?

Perhaps you'd like to see a game . . . but you only have an hour, or the game schedule doesn't coincide with your schedule, or you hate crowds.

Photo courtesy of Waldo Jaquith, © 2006, shared under the Creative Commons license

Whatever your reason, a Fenway Park tour gives you the opportunity to see the park up close, without almost 36,000 other people nearby. 

This is your chance to be out on the field, almost alone, where baseball legends performed their magic.

You'll walk across the same field where Babe Ruth looked up at cheering crowds while he pitched . . . where Ted Williams hit a spectacular 502-foot home run with his ball landing on top of a Yankee fan's straw hat . . . where Pedro Martinez became the first pitcher in All-Star history to strike out a game's first three batters. 

As you tour Fenway Park, you'll be in the exact spot where so much baseball history has been made.

The 50-minute walking tours are led by official Fenway Park tour guides.  What you'll see differs somewhat based on what else is happening on the field at the same time.

But typically, you'll get to touch the Green Monster and go inside it, right behind the scoreboard.  You may even get to go up and sit in the Green Monster seats. 

You'll check out the Press Box, imagine yourself at the mound, learn about Red Sox history, and visit the Red Sox Hall of Fame wall covered with photos and mementos showing great moments in the team's history.

You may get to walk around the Warning Track and Pesky's Pole, the famed right field foul pole named for a former Red Sox shortstop. You'll visit a few different parts of the stadium. You'll get to see the bullpens up close, built in front of the right center bleachers in 1940 so that left-handed Ted Williams could hit more home runs and dubbed "Williamsburg" by journalists of that era.

On non-game days, you might even get to visit the Dugout and walk across the field.

You'll see the Bullpen, where players warm up before the games, and the red phone that the coach uses to call for relief players.

As the Fenway Park tour continues, you'll even get an up-close, first-hand sense of how peculiar some of the ball park's dimensions feel when you're on the field.  You'll see how deep right field is, how short left field feels, how the Green Monster looms over you. 

You'll see how wall angles come together to make "the triangle," the farthest part of the field from home plate.  All the seats will be empty . . . but you'll imagine standing on the field, getting ready to hurl a ball through the air, with the almost-at-eye-level seats filled of cheering, screaming fans.

If you have your children with you, they'll absolutely love this tour, especially if they're about 10 years old or older.  After the tour, walk around to Van Ness Street and show them the Ted Williams statue.

Tips

You're permitted to walk on the field and in the dugout only during the morning tours on days when there's a home game - so if this is something that you want to do, plan accordingly. 

Tickets are sold only on the day of the tour and sometimes sell out.  Especially if you want to do a morning tour, a good strategy is to arrive early. 

Details and Directions

Address:  Fenway is at 4 Yawkey Way, Fenway
Nearest T station:   Green Line B or C/Kenmore; Green Line D/Fenway; Commuter Rail Worcester Line/Yawkey
Parking: Garages in Fenway

Tours depart from the Red Sox Souvenir Shop on Yawkey Way, directly across from Fenway Park

Tour hours:
   - Through April 5, 2009: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., every hour on the hour
   - Beginning April 6, 2009: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., every hour on the hour, until 3 hours prior to game time when a home game is scheduled

Cost (2009): 
       Adults - $12
      Children (3-15) - $10

For more information: 617-226-6666; website