Segway Tour in Historical Monterey

Riders will view the main street on which numerous canneries were involved in the processing of Sardines. Riders see some of the old buildingsm now repurposed to better serve the visitors.

Riders will pass by The Monterey Bay Aquarium, previously the Hovden Cannery, the largest cannery on Cannery Row. Knute Hovden, the then owner, was responsible for many of the innovations instituted in the catching and processing of Sardines. Tiles on the sidewalk represent some of the canneries that were operational during the Sardine Era in Monterey.

Ed Ricketts’s Laboratory, Pacific Biological Laboratories was the worksite and home of Ed Ricketts. He was a Marine Biologist who was a good friend of John Steinbeck. They collaborated on the book "Log From the Sea of Cortez" and Ed Ricketts was the character upon whom John Steinbeck based his character "Doc" in "Cannery Row' and "Sweet Thursday".

Old Fisherman's Wharf is the location of many fine restaurants, the launching point of several Whale Watching expeditions, numerous stores offering souvenirs, candy and a variety of other products. Several fishing charter companies also use the wharf as their launcing site.

The Custom House is the State's number one historical landmark, built in 1827, by The Mexican Government as they took control from The Spanish Government. Trading ships porting in Monterey would have to take their wares to The Custom House to have a determination made as to the tariff they would have to pay in order to bring their products to market. Sometimes the Captain did not have the money to pay the tariff, which resulted in his having to barter up to half of his wares in order to sell the rest to waiting customers. While Monterey has not been the capitol of California since it became a State, it was in front of The Custom House in 1846 where the US Flag was raised, declaring California to be a US Territory, subsequently to become the 31st State of The Union.

The Joseph Boston Company's "Casa del Oro" "House of Gold" was the shop where those who had been successful in their search for gold in 1848/1849, in Northern California, would store their gold. The shop is now a souvenir shop and the safe used back in the day is still in the shop

The building known as the Old Whaling Station was originally built in 1847 by Scottish adventurer David Wight as a home for his wife and daughter. The Wights lived in the home for a short time before leaving to explore the California gold fields. In 1855, the Old Monterey Whaling Company purchased the building and converted it into the headquarters for their whaling operations and an employee residence. The whaling company ran an “on-shore” operation, in which whales were killed at sea and towed to shore for processing. The fat, or “blubber,” was rendered by heating it in large iron pots to extract natural oil which could be used to lubricate machinery or burned in lamps to provide light. Baleen, the bony filter found in the mouths of filter-feeding whales such as grays and humpbacks, was used in corsets and umbrellas. The bones were ground up for fertilizer or used as paving stones (the sidewalk in front of the Old Whaling Station is made from whale vertebrae).

California's First Theater This old adobe is unique on two counts: its architectural design and its history as a theater setting. Map. It was constructed by Jack Swan, an English sailer of Scottish ancestry who settled in Monterey in 1843, as a saloon and apartment house. Four two-room units, each with outside east and west doors and a back room fireplace, were separated by partitions which could be raised and lowered. The functional character and the building was expanded further when Colonel John D. Stevenson's regiment disbanded in Monterey at the close of the Mexican War and persuaded Jack Swan to permit them to convert the building into the Union Theater for the production of melodramas.

The Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo (Spanish: Catedral de San Carlos Borromeo), also known as the Royal Presidio Chapel, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Monterey, California, United States. The cathedral is the oldest continuously operating parish and the oldest stone building in California. It was built in 1791-94 making it the oldest (and smallest) serving cathedral in the United States, along with St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only existing presidio chapel in California and the only existing building in the original Monterey Presidio.

The Commercial Wharf serves as the primary location for boats of all types to be berthed. Their is a Fish Market at the end of the wharf which is open to the public. There is an Abalone Farm beneath the wharf and there are four restaurants on the wharf.