Top 6 Amazing York Walking Tours
Urban adventures bringing the secrets of York to life.
- Work together to solve fun challenges & puzzling clues
- Guided by clues sent to your phones
- Explore York's historic landmarks and hidden gems
- Discover top-rated pubs, bars and cafes
- Compete for top spot on the York leaderboard













Next Steps
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- 1. Select your game, pick a trail of your choice and receive your welcome email.
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- 2. Rally your team and enter a team name and phone number(s) into the system.
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- 3. Receive your welcome text, then head to the start location on a day and time of your choice.
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- 4. Text START to receive the first in a series of cryptic directions. Solve the puzzles to unravel your mystery.
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- 5. Discover unique places, the secret and hidden of your city - and great independant pubs/cafes!
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CityDays York Hunts
Each hunt explores a different area of city in one of two ways. Our classic treasure hunts & scavenger hunts use puzzle-filled directions to guide players to exciting new sights. Our Story trails do all this with the added bonus of an immersive story on top - play the main character and relive a tale from the city's past or experience a story all your own.

- New release
- Food Included
Gourmet Xmas Food Hunt
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- Story
The Drowned City
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- Story
Ghosts of York
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- Story
A Fatal Feud
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- Food Included
York Gourmet Food Hunt
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Quirks and Snickets
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Action-packed York Walking Tours in York
How the York days out work
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Discover York's secret places
- Experience York's unique places and share stories in independent pubs & cafes, curated for each York York Walking Tour.
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Fun challenges
- Engaging puzzles and captivating stories reveal York in a new light.
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Play together or competitively
- Work as a team or compete head-to-head to set the fastest time on our York leaderboard.
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Fully flexible bookings
- Alter your booking freely; change the date, time, number of people or chosen York York Walking Tour. Even stop and start once you've begun.
York has a long and storied history just waiting to be explored. Discover its Roman and Viking roots, tales from the medieval town and beyond.
The Secret City's tours will take you on an interactive journey around its must-sees and little-known secrets, revealing every side of the historic city. All you need is a phone and you'll be good to go!
Fun activity for all groups




York Walking Tour Reviews
The great things our customers have to say about CityDays York Walking Tours

The hamster & The Ox
Brilliant day out, food was lovely too. A lot of thought and time has gone into this putting it together. Thanks

Tracey's Sparkly Senoritas
We’ve done several of these around London as a group, it’s almost a tradition now! We loved discovering a part of Londo…

Waltons seniors
Bristol just done, last one this year. Have done 6 different Citydays now, great way to find out about our great city’…

The Hardy Seniors
A good day out. Gets better when it gets darker. We will be doing this again

Flowers
Such great fun and highly recommend. Having been a frequent London visitor for over 25 years, through these clues, I sa…

Working Home Alone
We did this as a team competition - it was brilliant fun - I would recommend to anyone for a bit of friendly competitio…

Dickson and nalls
Really fun, challenging and lots of walking!

Maliboobies
A great Christmas adventure, with hints, tips and pub stops! Find bits of London you've never been and see the everyday…

Cousins
We had great fun in Oxford following the clues and seeing little known parts of the city centre away from the crowds. I…

COVSGIRLZ
Brilliant day - really enjoyed it and learnt so much history at the same time

APU Relics
Really good fun and great way to spend an evening seeing the lights and sights of London. Clues really got us thinking …

Salad and polecat
Had a great day seeing the sights of Edinburgh, clues were not too tricky and a fab way to see a new city.Will try anot…

3 accountants, 2 teachers & an underwriter
Great day looking around hidden parts of London. We all enjoyed the day which was challenging but achievable.

The Sibleys
A great trail today - Christmas themed and took us along loads of areas with great Christmas lights and decorations! Wo…

Team SC
Really enjoyed the day thank you!

Hegatels
Fantastic couple of hours exploring a part of London we knew little about.

FAZZ
It was perfect! I really enjoyed this trail and learned some interest fun facts - makes you notice things you pass by e…

Team Awesome
Great puzzle tour around the London Christmas lights. The puzzles were just the right to stay enjoyable and solvable. T…

APA
Really good fun! Enjoyed the clues and the wording of them that linked to the street names etc. Good day out and walk a…

Fergie
Had a great time, it was really interesting seeing things we normally wouldn't & learning some interesting facts. Our s…
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Explore the ancient city in an exciting new way
Play an active role in discovering York's past, immersing yourself in its Roman and Viking roots, unravelling enigmatic directions and solving riddles to reveal the city's secrets.
Take control of your own sight-seeing, stopping and starting at your leisure and progressing at your own pace. The perfect way for groups of all ages to see the city.
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