Savannah Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley Tour

Savannah Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley Tour is a 75-minute seated trolley ride run by Historic Tours of America, booking from $42.80 per person at our July 30, 2026 check. It runs day and evening, carries up to 32 passengers, and takes adults from age 13 with a child band from 6 to 12. The listing names three places along the route: Historic River Street, the Andrew Low House Museum and Perkins and Sons Chandlery. Two details cut against it. The seated trolley is not wheelchair accessible while most Savannah walking tours we compared are, so the format that looks easier is the one that excludes wheelchair users. Confirmation also arrives within 48 hours subject to availability rather than instantly. It suits travelers who want to cover ground off their feet and can wait on that confirmation.

What you will see

The Andrew Low House Museum at 329 Abercorn Street, on Lafayette Square, is the one stop on this route with a deep documented record. It was built between 1847 and 1849 for Andrew Low, a Scottish-born cotton merchant, to designs by the New York architect John S. Norris, who also drew the Green-Meldrim House on Madison Square and the Mercer House on Monterey Square (Andrew Low House). Robert E. Lee spent a night here in 1870, during the tour of the South he made in the last year of his life, and William Makepeace Thackeray had been a guest of the Lows in the 1850s (Andrew Low House Museum). Juliette Gordon Low, who married Andrew Low's son William Mackay Low in 1886, died in this house on January 17, 1927, of a breast cancer she had told almost nobody about (Girl Scouts of the USA). The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia bought the house in 1928 and still owns and operates it.

Three corrections travel with that house, and Savannah tours get them wrong constantly. First, this is not the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace. She was born at 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue and died roughly half a mile away at 329 Abercorn: two buildings, two museums, two owners. Second, the founding of the Girl Scouts cannot be pinned to one address. What is documented is that on March 12, 1912 she registered 17 girls into the first two troops of American Girl Guides in Savannah, and that she had the carriage house behind this house remodeled as a troop meeting place the same year (Andrew Low House Museum). The two museums tell the first-meeting story differently and both have an interest in the answer. Third, Lee's 1870 stay is documented as an overnight visit and nothing more. The common tour addition that Lee and Andrew Low were close friends has no source we could find, and the chronology usually gets flipped: Lee died in October 1870, months after the visit, while Low outlived him and died in 1886. In 2007 this house, the Birthplace and the Girl Scout First Headquarters were designated together as the Juliette Gordon Low Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District.

The house's ghost roster is Tom Milledge, the Lows' butler, a housemaid and sometimes Juliette herself, reported as footsteps and doors by staff and visitors. All of it is anecdotal, with no documented incident behind it, and Milledge was a real man in a real position of service in a household that enslaved people, which is biography rather than atmosphere. The Colonial Dames run the property as a decorative arts house museum with docent tours, not as an evening ghost venue, so a trolley passes it rather than goes inside.

The other two named places carry no research in our files, so we will not describe them. Historic River Street appears in the listing itinerary with a pass-by marker, while the operator's own summary describes a nighttime stop on River Street. The two do not agree, so ask which it is before you book. Perkins and Sons Chandlery is named and nothing more. One thing worth carrying to the waterfront: Savannah tunnel and shanghai stories tend to dissolve under checking, and Jefferson Hall traced one of the city's better-known tunnel legends back to a hospital utility passage (Fact-Checking Savannah's History). The operator's summary also promises former battlegrounds and historic cemeteries, but it names none of them.

Who it suits

This is 75 minutes in a seat, day or evening, at the highest from-price of the eleven Savannah ghost tours in our comparison that publish one. You are buying range rather than depth: the listing names three places, where the four longest walking itineraries we compared name six or seven.

• Skip it if you need step-free access. The listing says not wheelchair accessible, while the Genteel and Bard, Savannah History and Haunts, Sixth Sense and Ghost City walks all list wheelchair access.
• Skip it if you are booking for tonight. Confirmation takes up to 48 hours, subject to availability.
• Skip it if the rating gives you pause. Nine of the twelve Savannah ghost tours we compared rate 4.4 or higher, and this one is 4.0 across 3,202 reviews.
• Good for mixed groups staying together: the trolley takes up to 32, the adult band starts at 13 and the child band runs 6 to 12.
• No pets or emotional-support animals, per the listing.

How it compares

Savannah's ghost-tour field is mostly walking, and every walking listing we compared is cheaper and longer than this ride, with all but one rating higher. Genteel and Bard's Savannah Dark History and Ghost Encounter Walking Tour is $35 for 1 hour 50 minutes at 4.8 across 1,700 reviews, lists wheelchair access, caps at 22 and names seven stops, and it carried a likely-to-sell-out flag at our check. Savannah History and Haunts Candlelit Ghost Walking Tour is $39 for 90 minutes and holds the largest review sample of the twelve we compared at 4.9 across 3,445. Savannah Ghostwalker Tour and Ghost Hunt is $35 for 90 minutes at 4.9 across 706, but it is non-refundable and also not wheelchair accessible.

The trolley's case is the seat and the clock. At 1 hour 15 minutes it is the shortest of the twelve Savannah tours in our comparison, and it is the only Savannah listing in our records that shows a day-and-evening schedule, which matters if a night start does not fit your plans. Against that, it is the most expensive of the eleven with a published from-price, and its 4.0 sits below nine of the twelve. For the wider field, see Savannah ghost tours compared and our roundup of the best Savannah ghost tours.

Questions people ask

Is the trolley wheelchair accessible?

No, per the listing, and that inverts the usual pattern in this city. The Genteel and Bard, Savannah History and Haunts, Sixth Sense and Ghost City walks all list wheelchair access, so in Savannah the seated option is the one that excludes wheelchair users.

How quickly is my booking confirmed?

Within 48 hours, subject to availability, per the listing. It is not an instant confirmation, so do not build a same-evening plan around it.

How long is it and what does it cost?

One hour fifteen minutes, from $42.80 per person at our July 30, 2026 check, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start. Prices move, so confirm the current rate on the booking page.

Why is the rating 4.0?

We can report the number, not the cause. It is 4.0 across 3,202 Viator reviews, the second-largest sample of the twelve Savannah tours we compared, so it is not a small-sample wobble, and nine of those twelve rate 4.4 or higher. We banked no review text for this listing, so we will not guess at what drives the score.

Where does the trolley actually go?

The listing names three places: Historic River Street, the Andrew Low House Museum and Perkins and Sons Chandlery. The itinerary flags River Street as a pass-by while the operator's summary describes a nighttime stop there, so ask when you book. No cemetery or square is named anywhere on the listing.

Who runs it, and do you?

Historic Tours of America runs it. We do not run this tour. We are Arizona guides who research haunted history in other cities.