Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois uses the self guided audio tour concept, as they have
a minimal staff and are highly dependent on volunteer help.  It works quite well for them.  I think
that they require a deposit of some kind for the recorder and tape use. This is their web address:
http://medicine.wustl.edu/~mckinney/cahokia/cahokia.html

Aspen Historical Society wrote:
>
> The Aspen Historical Society is interested in creating a self-guided walking
> tour with an accompanying audio cassette.  Does anyone know of anything
> similar that has been successful? I was discouraged from pursuing this by
> one company that said this kind of program is usually not economically and
> logistically viable.  We have been running walking tours of our historic
> downtown in the summers for some time now, but we are finding it more and
> more difficult to find volunteers we can count on.  We also would like to
> find a way to make the tours more accessible to people by expanding the
> available times.  This is impossible right now since we don't even have
> enough volunteers to do the tours three times a week.  This is where the
> idea of audio tours came up.  Any other suggestions?
>
> Kimi Bensen
> Curator of Education
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