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Walk Ocean City’s boardwalk on your own time with an app‑guided tour that highlights the town’s female entrepreneurs, lifesaving history, and coastal character. Start at the Life‑Saving Museum and end at Thrasher’s for fries.
Walk Ocean City’s boardwalk on your own time with an app‑guided tour that highlights the town’s female entrepreneurs, lifesaving history, and coastal character. Start at the Life‑Saving Museum and end at Thrasher’s for fries.
Stand at the entrance to the Ocean City Life‑Saving Station and feel the Atlantic breeze push you north along a wooden ribbon of boardwalk. The sea calls the pace; gulls punctuate the narration as the app leads you past Victorian storefronts, century‑old hotels, and a whale sculpture keeping watch on the sand.
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Operated by WalknTours · Ocean City, Maryland
Stand at the entrance to the Ocean City Life‑Saving Station and feel the Atlantic breeze push you north along a wooden ribbon of boardwalk. The sea calls the pace; gulls punctuate the narration as the app leads you past Victorian storefronts, century‑old hotels, and a whale sculpture keeping watch on the sand.
This self‑guided audio walk traces Ocean City’s unique social history — including the “Petticoat Regime,” when women owned and ran most of the hotels in Old Towne — and the town’s maritime roots in lifesaving and seasonal commerce. Geologically, you’ll be walking on barrier‑island sand shaped by tidal currents and storms; the boardwalk itself is a human response to shifting dunes and coastal resilience. Culturally, Baltimore Avenue still carries echoes of early summer tourism: arcades, family businesses, and the fry shop where the tour ends.
Along the route you’ll pause at markers that tell stories of shipwrecks, heroic rescues, and the fires that repeatedly reshaped the town. The walk moves at your tempo — listen on a bench, at a cafe, or while pacing for exercise.
Practical guidance: download the WalknTours app, unlock with the provided code, and start at the Life‑Saving Museum. Expect 50–80 minutes on mostly flat, wheelchair‑accessible boardwalk and sidewalk surfaces. Bring a charged phone, sunscreen, and a small bottle of water; summer crowds swell midday, so plan for early morning or evening to avoid heat and buses of tourists. Finish with fries at Thrasher’s and a clearer sense of Ocean City’s stubborn, adaptive coastline.
easy.
50–80 minutes.
Suitable for most fitness levels; requires basic walking ability and standing intermittently
The self‑guided audio tour runs approximately 50–80 minutes depending on stops and walking pace.
Download the WalknTours app, register, open the Ocean City Petticoat Power tour, and enter the provided experience code to unlock it.
Yes — the boardwalk and most sidewalks on the route are accessible; the operator lists the tour as wheelchair accessible.
Yes — it is self‑paced and available on demand after you unlock it in the app; it does not expire.
Ocean City grew from a lifesaving outpost into a seasonal resort; by the 1920s women owned and operated a majority of Old Towne’s hotels, a rare business model for the era.
Barrier islands are dynamic — stick to marked paths and respect dune fencing to protect vegetation that stabilizes the beach and reduces erosion.
WalknTours operates guided outdoor trips and adventures with an emphasis on safety, stewardship, and memorable experiences.
Stand at the entrance to the Ocean City Life‑Saving Station and feel the Atlantic breeze push you north along a wooden ribbon of boardwalk. The sea calls the pace; gulls punctuate the narration as the app leads you past Victorian storefronts, century‑old hotels, and a whale sculpture keeping watch on the sand.
Stand at the entrance to the Ocean City Life‑Saving Station and feel the Atlantic breeze push you north along a wooden ribbon of boardwalk. The sea calls the pace; gulls punctuate the narration as the app leads you past Victorian storefronts, century‑old hotels, and a whale sculpture keeping watch on the sand.
This self‑guided audio walk traces Ocean City’s unique social history — including the “Petticoat Regime,” when women owned and ran most of the hotels in Old Towne — and the town’s maritime roots in lifesaving and seasonal commerce. Geologically, you’ll be walking on barrier‑island sand shaped by tidal currents and storms; the boardwalk itself is a human response to shifting dunes and coastal resilience. Culturally, Baltimore Avenue still carries echoes of early summer tourism: arcades, family businesses, and the fry shop where the tour ends.
Along the route you’ll pause at markers that tell stories of shipwrecks, heroic rescues, and the fires that repeatedly reshaped the town. The walk moves at your tempo — listen on a bench, at a cafe, or while pacing for exercise.
Practical guidance: download the WalknTours app, unlock with the provided code, and start at the Life‑Saving Museum. Expect 50–80 minutes on mostly flat, wheelchair‑accessible boardwalk and sidewalk surfaces. Bring a charged phone, sunscreen, and a small bottle of water; summer crowds swell midday, so plan for early morning or evening to avoid heat and buses of tourists. Finish with fries at Thrasher’s and a clearer sense of Ocean City’s stubborn, adaptive coastline.