Savannah

Basic Info

• Zip code: 31401
• Area code: 912
• Savannah GEMS: 2

Timing

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Resources

Official Resources

• Visit Savannah
• Georgia Tourism Guide to Savannah
• City of Savannah

Private Resources

• Savannah dot com
• Lonely Planet Best of Savannah
• US News Best of Savannah
• The Crazy Tourist Best of Savannah

Wikis

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Accommodations

City

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Dining

Lunch and Dinner

• Little Duck Diner C2
• B&D Burgers B3
• Your Pie Pizza C2
• Savannah Taphouse D3
• McDonough's Restaurant and Lounge D4
• The Cotton Exchange Tavern D2

Dessert

• Leopold's Ice Cream D3

Shopping

Savannah

• Starland District (J9)
  • See Sulfur Studios under NARM Museums
• E. Shaver, Bookseller (C3)
  • Hours: Mon-Sat: 10:30am-6:00pm, Sun: 12:00pm-5:00pm

Attractions

Savannah

• (GEM) Fort Pulaski National Monument (off map)
  • Tickets: $80 for a senior lifetime interagency pass possibly payable at $20 per year
  • Hours: 9:00 AM–5:00 PM daily
• (GEM) Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters (E3)
  • See Telfair under NARM Museums
• Congregation Mickve Israel (D6)
  • Tickets: $10 each
  • Hours: tours at 10 am, 11 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm
    • Please call to make reservations for desired tour time: 912-233-1547. Pay on arrival.
    • Please arrive 10 MIN prior to the beginning of your tour for admission.
• First African Baptist Church (A2)
  • Tours can be requested in advance
  • Tickets: Seniors $12 each
• Cathedral of St John the Baptist (D5)
  • Hours: Monday-Saturday – 9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M and 12:45 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Doors close at 5PM.
  • Tours are given by volunteers. A donation of $3 each is suggested.
• Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace (C3)
  • Hours: Thursday-Tuesday, 10am-4pm. Closed Wednesdays. Tours at 10 minutes and 30 minutes after the hour.
  • Tickets: Seniors $12 each
• E. Shaver, Bookseller (C3)
  • Book store at 326 Bull St (near Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace)
• Wormsloe State Historic Site
  • Hours: Monday–Sunday 9 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
  • Tickets: Seniors $9 each

Member Museums

NARM

• Telfair Museums of Art (#7 B3) -- NARM
  • Hours: 10-5pm daily
    • includes Jepson Center (#7 B3)
    • includes Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters (#9 E3)
      • House tours are given at 15-minute intervals. The last tour begins at 4:15pm.
  • Allow XX hours
  • NARM benefits: free/member admission during regular museum hours and member discounts at museum stores.

• Davenport House Museum (E3) -- NARM
  • Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sunday 1 – 4 p.m. Tours every half hour. Last tour begins at 4 p.m.
  • Allow XX hours
  • NARM benefits: NARM is not mentioned
  • Senior and AAA discounts available at the door

• Sulfur Studios (J9) -- NARM
  • Hours: THURSDAY - SUNDAY, 12 TO 5PM
  • Allow XX hours
  • NARM benefits: unspecified (possibly no entry fees regardless)
  • NOTE: in/near the Starland District

• National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force (G8) -- NARM
  • Hours: Monday: Closed /// Tuesday - Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm /// Sunday: 12 pm - 5 pm
  • Allow 2 hours
  • NARM benefits: unspecified

ASTC

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TT

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ACM

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Events

Savannah

• Arthur Beaumont: Art of the Sea (A3)
  • At the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum though June 18, 2023
    • HOURS: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (LAST ADMISSION 4:15 PM). TUES - SUN.
    • Tickets: $8.00 for Seniors and AAA

Tybee Island

• Horseshoe Crab Encounters
  • Crabs congregating and laying eggs on Tybee Island at 6:25pm May 17, 2023

Crime Data

Crime rate per 100,000 residents.
Listed in order of travel distance from Savannah.
Distances from this location are noted in parentheses,
For reference, the Memphis crime rate is 819.6 per 100,000, the national average is 398.5.

Savannah = ??? (0) Bloomingdale = 142.3 Bluffton= 69.5 Brooklet = 22.3 Claxton = 327.2 Garden City = 696.9 Hardeeville: 349.6 Metter: 255.9 Newnington = 153.3 Pembroke: 34.3 Pooler = 151.0 Port Wentworth: 213.3 Richmond Hill: 145.5 Rincon: 143.8 Springfield: 62.6 Statesboro: 89.8 Sylvania: 153.1 Thunderbolt: 169.7