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Where to Stay in Savannah, Georgia
Oak-shaded squares thread through Savannah, a river port in Georgia known for its Telfair Museums and the Mercer House.
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Where to stay in Savannah
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Savannah gathers around a grid of shaded squares, and where you stay turns on which part of that grid you want. In the heart of the old city the squares carry the monuments and the grand houses, from the Mercer House and the Andrew Low House to the Green-Meldrim House and the Sorrel-Weed House. The Telfair Museums stand a short walk away.
Staying here sets you among the greens and the antebellum homes, within reach of the Casimir Pulaski Monument and the James Oglethorpe Monument. It suits travellers who came for the historic core of Savannah. The river runs low at the edge of the grid.
Down toward the water the old cotton warehouses line the Savannah River, and the SCAD Museum of Art keeps a former depot beside the tracks. The Georgia State Railroad Museum stands nearby. This ground suits visitors who want the working riverfront and the galleries over the quiet squares.
Pick the squares for the old houses and the monuments, the river for the warehouses and the art of Savannah.
About Savannah
What is Savannah known for?
Savannah is known for its old squares and its houses on the Savannah River. The Telfair Museums and the SCAD Museum of Art hold its galleries, and the Mercer House and the Andrew Low House keep its grand homes. Monuments stand in the greens.
The James Oglethorpe Monument and the Casimir Pulaski Monument mark the founders and their wars. Congregation Mickve Israel and the First African Baptist Church anchor the older streets of the city.
What are the main landmarks in Savannah?
Savannah's landmarks stand in and around its squares. The Telfair Museums and the SCAD Museum of Art hold its galleries, and the Mercer House, the Andrew Low House, and the Green-Meldrim House keep its grand homes. Monuments fill the greens.
The James Oglethorpe Monument and the Casimir Pulaski Monument mark its founders, and the First African Baptist Church anchors the old streets. The Davenport House records the early town.
What is the history of Savannah?
Savannah was founded in 1733 on a bluff above the Savannah River, in Georgia. James Oglethorpe laid out the town on a grid of squares, and that plan still shapes the streets and greens the city keeps. The design was deliberate.
Each square gathered its own houses and its own church, and the town spread square by square back from the river bluff toward the pine country beyond. The James Oglethorpe Monument now marks the founder in one of those greens. Trade in cotton grew along the river, and the warehouses rose beside the water to hold it.
Over the generations that followed, the squares filled with the houses the city still shows. The Davenport House, the Andrew Low House, and the Mercer House rose among the greens, and the Telfair Museums opened in a former mansion. Congregations built their halls beside them.
Congregation Mickve Israel and the First African Baptist Church record the older faiths of the town, and the Casimir Pulaski Monument honours a soldier who fell in its siege. Savannah kept its plan through war and change. Its squares still hold the old city.
Where is Savannah?
Savannah stands on a bluff above the Savannah River, near the coast of Georgia, one of the states of the United States. The river runs east from the city toward the Atlantic Ocean, and low marsh and tidal creeks spread across the ground between. Flat land surrounds the town.
The old grid climbs a little from the water, but no hills rise beyond the river bluff.
What is the climate of Savannah?
Savannah has a humid, subtropical climate, softened by the nearness of the Atlantic Ocean. Summers are long, hot, and heavy with damp air, and afternoon storms build over the marshes and the Savannah River through the warm months. Rain comes hard in summer.
Winters stay mild along the Georgia coast, and hard frost is rare so close to the sea.
How do you get to Savannah?
Savannah is reached by road, by air, and by river. Highways run through Georgia and meet near the city, carrying traffic from across the United States, and ships still work the Savannah River up from the sea. An airport lies west of the old grid.
The river links the port to the Atlantic Ocean beyond the marshes. Most travellers arrive by road.
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Updated July 2026