Chicago's Ultimate City Bike Tour

The journey, in full

The tour begins at our Bike Hike headquarters in Streeterville, where you’ll meet your fun-loving and enthusiastic guide and your ready-to-ride our bicycle! Offered at both 9:30 am and 6 pm, this tour can be the perfect morning ride or a blissful sunset sensation. The journey kicks off with a beautiful lakefront ride past Navy Pier, over the Chicago River. With a stunning skyline backdrop, your guide will introduce you to the city and its rich history before leading the group into Millennium Park. Millennium Park is home to some of Chicago’s most iconic public sculptures and community spaces including Cloud Gate, better known as “The Bean,” The Crown Fountain, and the Frank Gehry-designed Pritzker Pavilion. Millennium Park comprises the northwest corner of larger Grant Park, home of Chicago’s biggest food, music, and culture festivals. Your guide will lead you right up to the dancing waters of Buckingham Fountain, which was the largest fountain in the world at the time of its construction. From there, the group will head south to Museum Campus, the one-of-a-kind park built to house the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium. You’ll see these unbelievable feats of architecture up close and personal, before biking over for a peek at mythical Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears. Depending on whether or not there is an event taking place in the park, the tour will enter Northerly Island next. The “island” is actually a peninsula, opened to the public as a nature preserve in 2015. Somehow, Northerly Island manages to pair amazing skyline views with the total serenity of nature. After that, your crew will get a peek at 12th Street Beach, one of Chicago’s numerous sandy swim spots, before stopping for the best skyline view in all of Chicago. Here, you’ll see why the ‘Greatest Hits’ is our most-heavily Instagrammed tour! Before heading back to the shop, you’ll get a peek at the world famous Navy Pier, as well as Chicago’s latest achievement in waterfront parks, the Chicago Riverwalk. No trip to Chicago is complete without a stop at these legendary attractions. On the way back to, the tour will cruise the historic Lakefront Trail, enjoying views of Lake Michigan sailboats and yacht clubs along the way. You’ll be a part of Chicago’s vibrant bicycle community and learn why we are repeatedly chosen as the world’s best city for biking. The tour concludes back at our Bike Hike headquarters after two and a half hours and five miles of fun!