We offer free 90-minute accessible walking tours of the campus seven days a week, rain or shine. Prospective student or family? Tourist? Nostalgic alum? A campus tour is perfect for you! Our expert tour guides are student ambassadors who cover academics, history of the University, health & safety, athletics, student life, and much more.
The tour outlines our residence halls and dining options, but does not include viewing a residence hall (visit the Cal Housing website for more information). Additionally, the tour does not include a sit-down presentation from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (visit the Admissions website for more information). Please note our campus tours are conducted completely outside and you may wander inside buildings on your own at your own pace. Registration is required for these tours (link at the bottom of this page).
These accessible walking tours are for individuals, families, and parties of up to 9 people. If you are a school group, organization, a bigger group, any size group requesting a Spanish or Mandarin language tour, or you’re interested in a private walking tour or golf cart tour for a fee, please visit the Special Group and Private Walking Tours page or Golf Cart Tours page for more information. We cannot accommodate groups on our free guided walking tour and any groups registering separately in parties of 9 will be cancelled and turned away.
Tours start at the Koret Visitor Center at 2227 Piedmont Avenue in the historic California Memorial Stadium, except on home football game weekends when the tour on Sunday will start at the Campanile, the tall clock tower in the middle of campus. Tours end near Sproul Plaza, an approximately 10 minute walk from the Visitor Center.
No campus tours on these dates
Campus tours are offered year-round, seven days a week, and on most major holidays with the following exceptions:
- Winter Break (Saturday, December 21, 2024 through Sunday, January 5, 2025)
- Cal Day (Saturday, April 19, 2025) - we are not offering a tour for prospective students as this day is for newly admitted students and their families only
- Commencement (Saturday, May TBA, 2025)
The online calendar includes several kinds of tours. Please review the name of the tour before reserving to ensure you are reserving the correct tour. Our calendar opens up about 3 months in advance, so please check at the beginning of each month for new tour offerings in a new month (for example, April tours will be released in the beginning of January).
Reservations
We are booking tours through March 2025. If the date you want isn’t available, please continually check the calendar because if someone cancels, those spots will immediately become available for booking. We also may be able to add more tours throughout the semester. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer a waitlist. If you are not able to reserve with us, please check out our many self-guided tour options and virtual engagments!
Please note that UC Berkeley does not track demonstrated interest by going on a campus walking tour as part of the admission process. Participation in campus visit opportunities is optional and has no bearing on the admission process should you decide to apply to UC Berkeley. This is also true for all of the University of California (UC) schools.
Cancellations
If you are unable to keep your campus walking tour reservation, please cancel your tour on our website so that other visitors can book a tour.