Savannah: Bonaventure Cemetery Private Tour with Shannon Scott

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Duration3h–4h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

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Bonaventure Cemetery's Quietest Corners: A Private Walk with Someone Who Knows Them

You spend the day exploring Bonaventure Cemetery's oldest and quietest sections with a private guide who knows the stories behind the graves. You get photo stops in places public tours don't reach, ask questions without time pressure, and move between sections in an air-conditioned vehicle. A bathroom break is included, and the pace is yours to set.

3h–4h

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Bonaventure Cemetery's antique sections

Visit multiple antique cemetery locations
Take plenty of photo stops

The Experience

There's something about a cemetery that makes you want to slow down and actually look. Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah spreads across more than 200 acres, and most visitors see maybe a tenth of it — the main paths, the famous moss-draped oaks, the spots that fit into a two-hour public tour. A private tour with Shannon Scott goes the other way. You get the antique sections, the quieter corners, the graves and monuments that tell stories the standard route skips, and you can ask questions without feeling like you're holding up thirty other people.

The difference between a public tour and a private one here isn't just comfort — it's access. Shannon knows which sections are worth lingering in, where the light hits best for photographs, and the history behind the names and dates that would otherwise blur together. You move at your own pace through the oldest parts of the cemetery, stopping when something catches your eye instead of when the schedule says so. The air-conditioned vehicle waits between sections, so you're not walking the whole 200 acres on foot, and there's a bathroom break built in. It's the kind of tour where you actually absorb what you're seeing instead of just collecting it.

Bonaventure Cemetery isn't morbid the way you might expect — it's more like walking through layers of Savannah's past, with Spanish moss hanging from live oaks and the Wilmington River visible through the trees. The antique sections have weathered headstones, family plots, and monuments that date back centuries. Shannon's knowledge of the place and the people buried there is what transforms it from a pretty walk into something you think about after you leave.

What’s included

Air-conditioned vehicle transportation between cemetery sections, sightseeing through antique sections with multiple photo stops, a bathroom break, and private access to areas beyond the standard public tour route.

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Easy physical level

Operated by Bonaventure, Historic Savannah, Low Country & Private with Shannon Scott Tours

Is this one for you?Choose this if you want to see beyond Bonaventure's main paths and have time to absorb the history — the private format and Shannon's knowledge are what make the 200+ acres feel like something other than a walk through a pretty graveyard.