A Self Guided Audio Tour of UC Berkeley Campus
By VoiceMap Audio Tours
Free cancellation available
includes taxes & fees
per adult
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 1h 30m
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
Overview
UC Berkeley is one of the world's great public universities, and its campus is as intellectually alive as the city surrounding it. On this self-guided audio tour, you'll discover how Nobel Prize winners, student revolutionaries, and football legends shaped a place where academic ambition and civic defiance are equally celebrated. The tour starts at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue, where you'll cross into campus at Sproul Plaza – the birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement. From Memorial Glade, you'll follow J. Robert Oppenheimer's daily walking route across Strawberry Creek to the Faculty Club, where he and Ernest Lawrence reportedly sketched nuclear weapons research on a linen tablecloth. The tour winds through the Haas School of Business, past California Memorial Stadium – which sits directly on the Hayward Fault and was rebuilt in floating sections to survive an earthquake – before finishing back at Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue.
Activity location
- 2350 Telegraph Ave
- 2350 Telegraph Avenue
- 94704, Berkeley, California, United States
Meeting/Redemption Point
- 2350 Telegraph Ave
- 2350 Telegraph Avenue
- 94704, Berkeley, California, United States
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A Self Guided Audio Tour of UC Berkeley Campus in English
Earn $0.30- 1h 30m
- Opening hours: Fri 12:00am-11:59pm
- English
Language options: English
Price details
$9.99 x 1 Adult$9.99
Total
includes taxes & fees
What's included, what's not
- Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
- Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
- App for Android and iOS
- Directions to the starting point so that when you’re in the right place, the tour will start
- Smartphone and headphones
- Transportation
- Food and drink
- Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Know before you book
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Activity itinerary
UC Berkeley Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building (Pass by)
Begin at the bustling heart of student life on campus, a building named for the civil rights leader whose spirit of organised dissent feels entirely at home in Berkeley's activist tradition. Explore the floors of student services, meeting rooms, and gathering spaces that have hummed with undergraduate energy, political debate, and late-night cramming sessions since the 1960s.
Sproul Hall (Pass by)
Stand in front of the imposing neoclassical administration building whose broad front steps became the stage for the 1964 Free Speech Movement, when Mario Savio climbed onto a police car and delivered one of the most electrifying speeches in American protest history. Find the granite plaque marking the exact spot where 3,000 students held that police car hostage for 32 hours and permanently changed the relationship between American universities and free expression.
Sather Tower (Pass by)
Pass through the ornate bronze gates that once marked the university's southern boundary, when everything beyond them was open pastureland and the city of Berkeley had barely begun to grow. Rub the 4.0 Ball on the nearby Sather Tower fountain for good luck, a student ritual so ingrained that the bronze is worn smooth by decades of anxious hands before midterms.
Memorial Glade (Pass by)
Stretch out on the broad lawn that serves as Berkeley's living room, a rare open expanse at the geographic heart of a campus more accustomed to intellectual intensity than idle relaxation. Learn why this glade is also infamous as the route of the annual Naked Run, when finals-week stress reaches its logical breaking point and undergraduate dignity is temporarily suspended.
Haas School of Business (Pass by)
Explore the striking postmodern complex that houses one of the world's most selective business schools, its terraced architecture and open courtyards designed to encourage the kind of collaborative thinking that has produced more Fortune 500 CEOs than almost any institution its size. Notice how the building's design deliberately blurs the boundary between indoor seminar room and outdoor conversation, a philosophy as Californian as the campus itself.
California Memorial Stadium (Pass by)
Marvel at the 63,000-seat stadium that sits directly astride the Hayward Fault, rebuilt between 2010 and 2012 in floating sections specifically engineered to ride out a major earthquake without collapsing. Peer through the walls at the Simpson Center high-performance facility, where Cal athletes recover in cryotherapy chambers and train on anti-gravity treadmills in conditions that would have seemed like science fiction when the original stadium opened in 1923.
International House at UC Berkeley (Pass by)
Approach the grand 1930 building funded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. as a living experiment in international coexistence, designed to house American and foreign students under the same roof at a time when such mixing was considered radical. Discover why I-House has generated more marriages between people of different nationalities than any other residential building on campus, a statistic that would have delighted its idealistic founder.
Caffè Strada (Pass by)
Pull up a chair at the outdoor terrace of Berkeley's most intellectually storied café, where the combination of strong coffee, afternoon sun, and proximity to the humanities buildings has reportedly produced more completed PhD dissertations than the library itself. Order something and absorb the atmosphere of a place where the line between academic breakthrough and procrastination has always been productively blurred.
Residence Halls Unit 1 (Pass by)
Look up at the high-rise towers where generations of Berkeley freshmen have arrived wide-eyed, hauling flat-pack furniture into rooms that will become the setting for friendships, arguments, and the first real taste of independence. Hear the stories of the notable alumni who began their Berkeley lives on these floors, and consider how many world-changing ideas have started in a room about the size of a generous parking space.
Crossroads (Pass by)
End your tour at the campus dining hub where the Southside energy of Telegraph Avenue meets the daily rhythms of student life, its food stations and communal tables drawing undergraduates from every corner of the university. Grab a seat, watch the crowd, and reflect on a campus where the distance between a Nobel Prize winner's office and a freshman's first dining hall breakfast has always been just a few minutes' walk.
Location
Activity location
- 2350 Telegraph Ave
- 2350 Telegraph Avenue
- 94704, Berkeley, California, United States
Meeting/Redemption Point
- 2350 Telegraph Ave
- 2350 Telegraph Avenue
- 94704, Berkeley, California, United States
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