Now that Alcatraz is no longer an operating prison, it is a national park that welcomes over 1 million visitors worldwide each year. You can take walks along the prison grounds and tour the inside of the prison. Alcatraz closed as a federal prison on March 21, 1963 and reopened as a national park nine years later in 1972. In the tours you can view where the convicts slept, bathed and worked. Audio tours walk you throughout the grounds and through the prison giving you the history and highlights of Alcatraz. Visitors can even go in some of the cells to see what the prisoners had to live in. Many infamous convicts held there, as well as the prison itself have earned themselves recognition in many history museums.
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Day TourThis tour includes a 45 minute audio tour, with actual officers and inmates telling you the story of Alcatraz.
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Night TourThis tour provides a more "engaging and intimate" Alcatraz experience. A personally narrated boat ride and tour as well as many special "extras".
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Alcatraz and Angel Island TourThis tour goes to Alcatraz and Angel Island, a narrated tour of Angel Island and an audio tour of Alcatraz. The total trip is about 5 1/2 hours.
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