The Hidden Gem Cemetery Tour Of Laurel Grove

This tour was wonderful. Paschal is very knowledgeable and easy going. We learned a lot about Savannah history and the cemetery “residents”. Highly recommend!

The Hidden Gem Cemetery Tour (Laurel Grove) was indeed a hidden gem! Paschel was very knowledgeable about the cemetery, cemetery symbolism, and the stories about the inhabitants. He was also very entertaining.

This is an amazingly beautiful and informative tour. A tad long if you have younger children along or if you have somewhere else to get to, but for those wanting to fill your afternoon, this is a must do. Paschal is incredibly knowledgeable and made the trip very memorable for us.

This is a tour that should not be missed. Our guide, Shannon, was absolutely incredible. He told us about the cemetery itself. We learned a ton about history and he had interesting stories about many of the people there. He was phenomenal in teaching us about the symbolism found here and in many cemeteries. We learned so much and heard some amazing personal anecdotes. Shannon was one of the best tour guides we have ever had!

As a Girl Scout Alumni Troop from Savannah, we got to learn about the history of the cemetery that the GS Founder, Juliette Low, is buried. Sorry to see it “abandoned” with no active support group to maintain it other than the city.

Paschal was a wonderful guide. He was very knowledgeable and the tour was placed out nicely. I would recommend this tour.

Tour guild was excellent!!! A lot of knowledge and interested stories. We are recommended for wonderful tour guide.

Learned lots of Savannah history. Less pretentious than Bonaventure. Next door is the African American cemetary at Laurel Grove South - beautiful.

Excellent tour and a must when visiting Savannah. Pascel was our guide. He was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about his subject.

More people should take advantage of this tour. Educational, informative and a beautiful cemetery. We we able to tour some of Savannah's most famous graves like Juliet Gordon Low, Andrew Low and George Owens

Paschal was great. Very knowledgeable and passionate. Awesome tour. Highly recommend on your next visit to Savannah.

Paschal was a wonderful guide and very knowledgeable. The cemetery is not the most visited but it is worth it

We were super excited to see our guide was Paschal Miller with Shannon Scott Tours. The cemetery is beautifully set among the moss-covered trees and all though not as ornate as most of the site in Bonaventure, this tour is not to be missed. Paschal is passionate about his birth town and his education lends more insight than someone that just moved to the area and did a little reading and hearsay. There were only one other couple and a jogger in the entire cemetery which makes the tour even more enjoyable.

Jessica is very knowledgeable and provided an excellent 2 hour tour! Would definitely recommend this tour.

The guide was very knowledgeable and gave a great deal of information regarding the history and development of Laurel Grove. We found this to be one of the best tours we took during our vacation. Wish we would have had her as our guide at Bonaventure. Thanks for a wonderful morning!

When I was at Bonaventure Jessica recommended I checkout Laurel Grove. We arranged a tour of the cemetery. It is the same age as Bonaventure but has a much older feel. Jessica did a great job explaining everything, and mentioned that this place is not really well known. There are some beautiful statues and headstones, it's a shame more people don't get out there One thing about solo traveling to this place I did have to buy two tickets to go by myself. It was however functionally a private tour for a great price.

Good visit to Laurel Cemetery! Beautiful grounds and knowledgeable guide Jessica! It was a tad long on a hot day but Jessica was full of fascinating historical knowledge.

Smart, informative and super sweet tour guide. I love the knowledge she knew about all things in this cemetery.

This was our second tour of Laurel Grove Cemetery through Shannon Scott Tours. Jessica is a well-informed tour guide! She gives you a little bit of everything from symbols to stories. Jessica did an excellent job connecting the information we learned from our Bonaventure Cemetery tour to the ties in Laurel Grove. We will definitely be back to explore again!

It was enjoyable, getting to know more of the history of Laurel Grove Cemetery (North) as some of my relatives are also buried there. Discovering that local and nationally famous people are interred here was a plus! Jessica opened our eyes to the artwork, designs, love and history incorporated in the grave markers and entrances to mausoleums. An excellent tour and just a small portion of what this hallowed place is all about.

Beautiful cemetery! Our guide was super knowledgeable, very friendly and accommodating. Loved it!!!!

Every time we visit Savannah, we make it a point to visit The Bonaventure Cemetery, but until this November, we had not been able to tour Laurel Grove Cemetery. We are so very glad we finally got to see Laurel Grove in all of its gothic loveliness thanks to Shannon Scott Tours! Our guide Richard was so very personable, and it was very obvious he loved the cemetery. Several times during our tour, he stopped to pick up trash which had blown across a grave, and he straightened several mementoes which had slipped from their resting places on a headstone. That really impressed us. Richard told us many stories of the famous and infamous folks who rest in Laurel Grove which was very educational. It was explained to us that this tour was relatively new, so we commend Richard for all the research he did to make it interesting. We look forward to visiting Laurel Grove on our next visit to Savannah to see what new elements Richard may have added!

Toured Laurel Groove with guide Richard Hodge. He's a great guy. Knows his stuff and knew how to make it al very enjoyable

I reside in Macon, Georgia but am a regular traveler to Savannah, Georgia and have taken all of the ghost and cemetery tours to put it mildly and to the point where most of the guides and operators know me at least on sight and many by name. Yes, that obsessed with the place! So it had miffed me that no one was offering a daily tour in Laurel Grove Cemetery North and often voiced my dismay at the visitor centers and to various operators so it did my heart good to realize that finally there was indeed one I could take advantage of. Communication with Shannon Scott Tours was excellent and as I had taken their Bonaventure Cemetery Journey's tour several times prior, knew that I was in for a promising experience. I was certainly not let down by the experience if just because the tour was conducted by not one guide, but two, one of which was Shannon Scott himself along with Professor Richard Hodges. Both gentlemen met my family and myself at the front entrance and turned into a fascinating morning! Mr Hodges was definitely a Civil War buff and had taught the subject at college level in Georgia. He was a very formidable guide and entertained and answered questions well. Mr. Scott was there somewhat to do quality control and added information about the burial vaults and some of the other odds and ends characters that Mr. Hodges was unfamiliar with. It truly felt like a living classroom and other than a few city trucks parked nearby, we didn't see another single tourist soul in the place and very much had the place to ourselves! Laurel Grove is clearly the untapped well of history and other connectivity with this area and while Bonaventure does have all of the fame, I found that there are dimensions here that clearly stand above Bonaventure and frankly? People should see both places before claiming they've done Savannah!"

Savannah is full of beautiful cemeteries but Laurel Grove is truly its hidden gem. Nestled on the west side of town, not many visitors know that it is there but once you experience its gorgeous landscape you won't believe what you were missing. Tour guide, Richard, is a real historian and will take you back in time to the Victorian era with tales of Savannah's past. I have to stress that the landscape itself is so unique!! You really won't see another cemetery like it!