Secret Jacksonville walking tours

Oct 25, 2022 • The Jaxson

Starting Sunday, October 30, Secret Jacksonville walking tours are back. Jaxson cofounder Bill Delaney will host monthly tours of some of the unusual and underknown Downtown spots featured in his book Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure.

Secret Jacksonville walking tours

Writer Bill Delaney, co-owner of TheJaxsonMag.com and Edible Northeast Florida Magazine, has spent years researching Jacksonville’s underknown and underrepresented stories. His book, Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure is dedicated to profiling the forgotten, mysterious and just plain interesting spots across Jacksonville and the First Coast.

On Sunday, October 30 and continuing on a monthly basis, Bill is hosting the next in a series of walking tours of a few of the places featured in the book across Downtown. Hear the stories of Jacksonville’s underground tunnels, the locomotive buried beneath a skyscraper, a lost (and fictitious) Native American city, a long destroyed sculptural masterpiece that will soon be reborn in Jacksonville, underknown Jax music history and much more lying just off the beaten path. The tours begin at James Weldon Johnson Park and tickets are $20 (kids 12 and under are free).

Signed copies of Secret Jacksonville are available at each of these events. You can also order online at thejaxsonmag.com/books.