Top Savannah Walking Tours

Discover the flavors of Savannah on this lunchtime walking tour through the Historic Landmark District. With a food-loving guide and a small group of 14 people or fewer, explore both little-known haunts and well-known hot spots. During this outing, you’ll taste the dishes that make Savannah’s food scene so unique. Listen as your local guide fills you in on Savannah's distinctive culture, tumultuous history, and endearing quirks.

See the best of Savannah in one time-saving tour—and enjoy a more personal sightseeing experience—on this small-group walking tour. Take in the highlights of the city, from the Armstrong-Kessler Mansion and Forsyth Park to Madison Square, as well as hidden gems that visitors may ordinarily overlook. As your guide shares stories from Savannah’s past, you’ll get a deep dive into the history of specific squares and buildings.

Skip the boring guidebook and map and explore Savannah’s heart with an engaging local guide who knows how to bring the history and lore of this Southern city to life. Stroll along cobblestone lanes to take in elegant squares, antebellum homes and museums, and picturesque churches and parks as you learn about the city’s role in the American Revolution and Civil War, as well as its modern history.

Go beyond standard sightseeing with this guided architecture tour that highlights the architects that created Savannah’s historic structures. Learn about William Jay, who is considered the father of the city’s architecture, John Norris, Hyman Witcover, and William Gibbons Preston. Pass by overlooked sites like the Gryphon Tea Room and visit popular sites like the Mercer William House Museum.

Experience the haunting beauty and history of stunning Savannah on this Bonaventure Cemetery tour. Follow your expert guide just beyond the limits of the historic district and wander through the tombstones and gardens of this 170-year-old location. Learn about the lives of its famous inhabitants and why the cemetery is considered by locals to be the place where death and beauty meet.

Immerse yourself in Savannah’s colorful past as you take in its top landmarks with this history-focused walking tour led by a historian guide. Learn about how the city evolved, beginning with the ancient mound builders and covering the colonial, Revolutionary War, and Civil War periods to the modern day. Take in the city’s main squares, landmark churches and homes, and other historic monuments as you listen to stories about the city and the people who built it.

Our Savannah History Walk is an excellent way to orient yourself with Savannah’s past. We start in Savannah’s oldest square and outline the founding of both Savannah and Georgia. From there we head south, square by square, discussing Savannah’s booms and busts. Some topics covered include the Oglethorpe Plan for squares, the father vs. son atmosphere of Revolutionary Savannah, the city’s most famous duel, Presidential visits, the Civil War era and Federal occupation, the experience of Antebellum and post-War African Americans, and the city’s churches and historic homes. We’ll take our talk right up to the tourist boom brought on by a certain book, the growing Port of Savannah, and where the city goes from here. You’ll also hear about dozens of men and women who made this place what it is. This is Savannah's most in-depth and comprehensive historic tour. Whether a tourist or longtime resident, you’ll walk away with a greater appreciation of all things Savannah.

Discover the sights and flavors of Savannah—and explore beyond the typical tourist trail—on this small-group food tour. Learn about the city's long history, elegant architecture, and unique culture as you explore the Savannah Historic District on foot. Along the way, stop to savor tastings at several specialty food stores and restaurants, and discover more about the city's culinary heritage.

Take a leisurely stroll through the Savannah Historic District on this guided walking tour. Together with a lifelong resident of Savannah, visit one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the US. See the historic homes as well as the houses of the South’s most famous generals. Visit the buildings from the war years of the 1860s. Learn about the town’s storied past, its African-American history, its military strategies, the important women who lived here, the Confederate States’ place in the Civil War and much more.

Book your favorite Savannah memory on the most treasured and trending guided Savannah walking tour where history, heritage, and architecture unfold at every turn. With a polished historian guide leading the way, this immersive history and culture activity explores the Historic District’s monuments, landmarks, and defining moments that shaped Georgia’s first city into the can’t-miss Southern destination it is today. You’ll experience the stories behind Savannah’s iconic architecture and hidden histories that most visitors pass by.

With its cobbled streets, historic squares, and plethora of colonial architecture, Savannah is a history buff's dream, but if you aren’t with a local guide, you may miss some of the most interesting spots and anecdotes. A walking tour helps you learn the history of Savannah's involvement in the Civil War—including how it was famously spared on Sherman's March to the Sea, allowing its original infrastructure to remain intact.

Travel back in time to Savannah’s Civil War era on this guided walking tour. Take a leisurely stroll through the Savannah Historic District, one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the US. See the houses of the south’s most famous generals and visit the buildings from the war years of the 1860s. Listen as an expert guide speaks of the town’s storied past, its military strategies and the Confederate States’ place in the war. It’s a great tour for history and Civil War buffs alike.

The Dead of Night tour visits some of Savannah's most haunted locations, whilst hearing the dark history of the city's most notorious characters who shaped one of America's oldest ports. Ghosts, spirits, demons, all lurk in the shadows, waiting to meet you on the dimly lit streets of the South's most intriguing city.

Step into Savannah’s haunted shadows and make your favorite vacation memory on this immersive nighttime guided walking ghost tour. Experience Savannah’s lamp-lit historic district, its moss-shrouded haunted houses, and legendary cemeteries. Led by an expert historian storyteller, this world-renowned ghost tour unearths chilling dark history, unexplained ghost encounters, folklore, and mysterious chapters woven into the city’s culture and heritage that will haunt you long after you turn off the lights.

Get an alternative view of Savannah and delve deeper than most into its fraught history of war, executions, murders, and mystery on this historical ghost tour. Guided by the glow of a lantern, follow your guide through historic squares and cobblestone streets, past moss-draped oaks, as they recount eerie tales.

Savannah is frequently ranked as one of the most haunted cities in America, and this tour is your shortcut to discovering some of its paranormal hotspots. Set off on an evening adventure with a guide to entertain you with stories that are backed up with paranormal evidence. The route focuses on the city's historic district with stops along the way at locations linked to hauntings.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction novel and feature film set in Savannah. Visit the filming locations for this true-crime thriller on this relaxed walking tour. Join a local guide for a leisurely stroll through Savannah, stopping at locations from the movie, as well as those mentioned in the book like Joe Odom’s House. See real photos and hear the true story that inspired the novel.

Step into Savannah’s history on a trolley tour taking you through the city’s cobblestone streets and elegant neighborhoods. Hear stories from the old South as you ride with a guide to point out the landmarks and mansions you won't want to miss as you pass them along the way. Trolleys depart at different scheduled times throughout the day from a central location in historic Savannah, so you can pick the one that works best for you.

Combine one of Savannah’s famous ghost tours with a pub crawl, and you’ve got a recipe for a spooky good time. Visit the city’s charming historic (and haunted) squares, learn about its fascinating past, and stop in at several pubs to sample some of Savannah’s local craft beers or cocktails, all included, so you don't have to worry about paying.

Discover some of the most haunted places in Savannah during a small-group ghost and pub walking tour. Meet your guide and set out on a city stroll that includes four popular pubs and bars. Learn about the history and haunted past of these watering holes as you raise a glass in each pub. Combine history with a night out during this walking tour.

Discover the spooky side of Savannah with a haunted pub crawl. Meet your guide at Churchill's for this adults-only walking tour that includes a stop at Colonial Park Cemetery. Visit several different bars (drinks own expense) and hear spooky stories about local history, architecture, and landmarks. Maximize time in Savannah with a guided city stroll.

We pride ourselves on fact-based history. That's why we don't give ghost tours. Savannah has so much dark history that we don't need to make up any! This tour begins with a brutal duel that took place in a bar that still exists to this day. We'll move on to discuss Savannah's first murder. You'll see the site of the colony's first cemetery and the grave of a Native who was crucial to Georgia's success. We'll visit the location where a more recent serial killer met a victim, then discuss Colonial Park Cemetery's past and present. Savannah saw a great deal of tragedy during the Revolution, and you'll learn about the toll it took. We'll tie things up at the site of a killing that ironically put Savannah on the pop culture map and helped lead to its booming tourist industry today. Please note that though some local ghost tours have recently rebranded themselves as "dark history" tours, we are the original! This is Savannah's only fact-based evening tour.

Shake up a traditional walking tour with a bit of true crime and a cocktail; that's what this twilight tour of Savannah has to offer. Grab to-go drinks (own expense) and sip away as you pass landmarks, such as Oglethorpe Square and Colonial Park Cemetery, on this walking tour focused on the murders, scandals, and crimes of passion in Savannah's history.