Free walking and biking tours celebrating 19th-century Washington D.C.’s canal history. We explore canals, locks, canal boats, and lockkeeper houses – and the people who built and used them.
Our walking and biking tours are followed by a pay-as-you-go Bavarian-style Oktoberfest celebration.
We encourage all LocktoberfestDC participants to Support Our Parks, without which our walking and biking tours would be impossible.
LocktoberfestDC 2026 - part of America's 250th Birthday celebration - will be held Saturday September 26.
Click on Tour Summary to review LocktoberfestDC walking and biking tours. You will be able to sign up in the spring here on this website or on Eventbrite.
Click here to see event photos from previous years.
See LocktoberfestDC 2024 highlighted in WTOP's Matt About Town series in the video below.
