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Audio Driving Tour Around St. Simons Island

Golden Isles
by Viator
DifficultyEasy
SeasonSee calendar when booking
LanguageEnglish

The Experience

St. Simons Island is almost exactly the same size as Manhattan, but instead of skyscrapers, it has live oaks, and instead of eight million people, it has 6,000 years of layered history. On this audio driving tour, you'll trace the island's story from Indigenous shell rings to World War II submarine attacks. The tour starts at the Pier Village parking lot, beside the old fishing docks. From here, you'll drive past the St. Simons Lighthouse, built in 1872 on the footprint of an earlier light whose Confederate-hidden Fresnel lens has never been found, and along the coast where German U-boats torpedoed American oil tankers just offshore in 1942. Along the way, you'll hear the story of Igbo Landing on Dunbar Creek, where a group of West Africans chose defiance over enslavement in 1803. The tour ends back at Neptune Park by the pier, named for Neptune Small, a man born into slavery on Retreat Plantation whose name now marks the land he eventually owned.

How to book

Booked on Viator, who runs this experience. Inclusions and cancellation are theirs.

  • Book with Viator

    5.0(1 reviews)

    Free cancellation · 24h before

    from₹983

    Includes: Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it · Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata · Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour · +2 more

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Food & Drink

Food

Not provided

Drinks

Provided

Logistics & Transit

Transport not included
Location
Golden Isles

Difficulty & Fitness

Easy1/5

Easy — suitable for all fitness levels, no experience needed.

About the guide

Guide type
Self Guided
Group experience
No — private booking

Know before you go

Service animals allowed Public transportation options are available nearby Suitable for all physical fitness levels