Visit Madison Launches Limited-Time Madison Trolley Tours & Free Trolley Rides

Trolley Rides will only be for a limited time

Visit Madison, Inc. is excited to announce the launch of a limited-time guided Trolley Tour schedule and limited-time Trolley Hop-on Hop-off routes.

Visit Madison, Inc. (VMI) and the Jefferson County Board of Tourism (JCBT) has partnered with Madison Trolley, Inc. to bring you curated beautifully scenic and historic guided tours of Madison’s Downtown Historic District. In addition to the paid guided trolley tours, there will be FREE hop-on hop-off trolley rides that encompass continual stops at over 15 convenient destinations on two routes: Downtown & Hilltop Loops and Downtown Loop.

“We are over-joyed to bring these Trolley Tours back for a limited-time,” said Visit Madison, Inc. Executive Tourism Director Andrew Forrester. “This informative scenic tour includes historic sights, story-telling, and points of interest in Madison’s Historic District”. Forrester added “Offering free rides around downtown and the hilltop will allow for easy public transportation for those wanting to get around downtown, or perhaps they are at Hanover College, or staying at Clifty Falls State Park & Clifty Inn, or Holiday Inn.

GUIDED MADISON TROLLEY TOURS

Tours will run every day, Mondays through Saturdays at 11AM and Sundays at 3:00PM. The first tour day will be Wednesday, November 8 th at 11AM and the last tour day being Sunday, November 26th, 2023, which includes the first weekend of the Nights before Christmas Candlelight Tour of Homes. Each tour will last approximately 60–75-minutes; tickets are $16 per person, $6 per child ages 3-10(ages 0-2 free).

FREE HOP-ON HOP-OFF TROLLEY RIDES

Looking to get around downtown or the hilltop on the weekends? Available Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays starting November 10 th , try these free Hop-on Hop-off Trolley rides customized to the area’s most popular destinations. Trolleygoers are to look for the “Trolley Stop” signs at each of the below locations and times.

• Fridays 4PM-7PM | Downtown & Hilltop Loops

• Saturdays 12:00PM-6PM | Hilltop Loop

• Saturdays 12:30PM-6PM | Downtown Loop

• Sundays 11:00AM-3:00PM | Downtown & Hilltop Loops

Downtown Loop Route:

• Comfort Station - 221 W. Main Street

• Art Alley (next to Off Broadway Taproom)

• Historic Eagle Cotton Mill - Fairfield Inn

• Riverboat Inn & Suites

• Hillside Inn

• Madison's Kitchen

• Historic Ohio Theatre

• Broadway Fountain (next to Galena Garlic)

• Little Golden Fox

• Mill & Main Streets (North side)

• The Red Pepperoni (Main & Cragmont Streets)

• River West Antique Mall

• Olde Tyme Marketplace

• Trolley Barn Shoppes / Mad Love eat+drink

Downtown & Hilltop Loop Route:

• Hanover College Brown Campus Center - on the hour :00

• Clifty Inn at Clifty Falls State Park - :15

• Clifty Falls State Park Campground - :20

• Holiday Inn Express - :35

• Comfort Station Downtown - 221 W. Main - :45

• Lumber Mill Antique Mall

• Visitors Center / Lanier Mansion State Historic Site

• Comfort Station - 221 W. Main Street

Booking a Madison Trolley Tour can easily be done online through the local ticketing agent, MadTix. Click here. For more information about the Guided Tours and Hop-on/Hop-off Trolley Routes go to > https://visitmadison.org/explore/tours/madisontrolley/

Just when you think that’s a lot of Trolley; Visit Madison, Inc. will also be offering mini-Trolley based events and collaborations where the trolley transportation is included with the price of that event. Coming November 11th & 12th , take part in the “Mysterious Madison – Tales from Springdale” Madison Trolley Tour experience. Tickets go on sale this week. Stay tuned for more events by following the Visit Madison event calendar and their Facebook page.

Trevor Crafton, the JCBT President added "Jefferson County Board of Tourism and Visit Madison, Inc. have watched Dave Adams for years work extremely hard to provide visitors with a trolley experience. As Dave Adams has shown us time and time again, it’s vitally important to show guests the many wonderful things Jefferson County has to offer. If we can control our visitor’s experience then we can solidify that they had the opportunity to experience our best assets (Hanover College, Clifty, hilltop, historic downtown Madison & riverfront). We are excited to invest in this due diligence process. Gathering data provides us with the numbers to support our investments”.

Forrester expressed “We are grateful to the JCBT for again working with us to evaluate the opportunity to bring back a Trolley Tour program. This knowledge & data, much like what we are gaining from the Comfort Station trial will assist with the future possibility of getting more Trolley tours and events more regularly.