Explore Gary at your own pace
Smoke once curled from Gary's steel mills as gospel choirs soared from cathedral walls-echoes still ripple under empty windows and neon-dim halls.
Start this self-guided audio tour through the city's heart and out to its hidden edges. Discover stories and secrets baked into every brick, the kind that most visitors never hear.
Who sparked the political uprising that shattered city hall's silence? What shadow lingers in the ruins of City Methodist Church and whispers among stained glass? Why did scandal erupt at a stage where jazz legends once played to packed crowds?
Photo: Nyttend, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Tour details
- Duration: about 1.5 hours, entirely at your own pace
- Distance: around 3.5 km (2.2 miles)
- Stops: 13 landmarks, including Adam Benjamin Metro Center, Genesis Convention Center, City Methodist Church
- Starts at: Adam Benjamin Metro Center
How it works
- Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
- Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
- Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
- Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.
There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.
What is included
- Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
- An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
- Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
- Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
- Lifetime access - your code never expires
Photo: Nyttend, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Where you will stop
- Adam Benjamin Metro Center
- Genesis Convention Center
- City Methodist Church
- Knights of Columbus Building
- Jackson-Monroe Terraces Historic District
- Monroe Terrace Historic District
- American Sheet and Tin Mill Apartment Building
- Van Buren Terrace Historic District
- Polk Street Terraces Historic District
- Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District
- Wilbur Wynant House
- Thea Bowman Leadership Academy
- Cathedral of the Holy Angels
What is AudaTours?
AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.
- Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
- Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
- At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
- Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release
Good to know
- This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
- It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
- The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
- You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
- Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.
Who it suits
Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.
Image credits
Photos: Nyttend (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); AudaTours.