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The previous price was AU$10 and current price is AU$8 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Walk the historic one-mile artery linking Wisconsin's statehouse to its flagship university. Discover how Madison's architectural geography—from grand rotunda echo chambers to front-porch strongholds and narrow collegiate hallways—fuelled landmark civil rights strikes, antiwar rebellions, and the massive 2011 labour uprising.

    • A 4.0 km self-guided tour with 9 stops over 150 min
    • Ideal for travellers interested in Power, Protest & Civic Spaces and History & Memory
    • Immersively told in a podcast style by experts and locals
    • Matching audio content, AI guide and navigation through the app

Activity location

  • Lisa Link Peace Park
    • 452 State St
    • 53703-2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 452 State St
    • 452 State Street
    • 53703, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Podcast Tour Madison The Geography of Dissent in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • Opening hours: Sun 12:00 am-11:59 pm
  • English
Price details
AU$9.75
AU$7.80 x 2 AdultsAU$15.60
Total
The previous price was AU$19.50 and current price is AU$15.60
20% off

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Verified facts woven into an engaging storey
  • Inclusions
    Interactive in-app guide for questions about the storey and surroundings
  • Inclusions
    Precise navigation between the stops
  • Inclusions
    Immersive podcast-style audio featuring experts and locals

Know before you book

    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Lisa Link Peace Park

  • 10m
A pocket park on State Street commemorating grassroots peace organiser Elizabeth Link, where public assembly meets city centre commerce.

Wisconsin State Capitol

  • 10m
The nerve centre of state governance and ground zero of the historic seventeen-day 2011 Act 10 labour occupation.

100 State St

  • 10m
The ceremonial hinge where campus marches transform into statewide demonstrations, framing a clear view towards the university.

500 W Mifflin St

  • 10m
Site of the explosive May 1969 Mifflin Street Block Party riots, which remade city politics and sparked a network of radical co-ops.

Library Mall

  • 10m
Madison's central open-air public forum and Hyde Park equivalent, hosting antiwar rallies, shantytowns, and student assemblies.

Memorial Union Terrace

  • 10m
The lakeside student commons where the nation's first graduate student labour union organised and sparked the 2011 Capitol uprising.

Bascom Hall

  • 10m
The ceremonial heart of UW-Madison, where the historic 1969 Black Student Strike faced down armed National Guard bayonets.

University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • 10m
Formerly the Commerce Building, where the brutal October 18, 1967 Dow Chemical sit-in marked the first violent campus antiwar clash in US history.

Sterling Hall

  • 10m
The tragic culmination of antiwar militancy: the deadly August 24, 1970 bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Centre.

Location

Activity location

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    Lisa Link Peace Park
    • 452 State St
    • 53703-2023, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    452 State St
    • 452 State Street
    • 53703, Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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