What is the Savannah outdoor escape game?
The Savannah outdoor escape game is an escape room that moves out onto the squares and streets: you play on your smartphone, and at each of the 10 stops a puzzle waits that you solve by studying the surroundings and reasoning it through. Set aside about 2 hours, of which 56 minutes are spent walking across 3.8 km.
Each puzzle works on its own, without a shared storyline, and up to three levels of hints are available if you get stuck. The historic district suits the format because its squares, cemeteries and mansions form one connected walk, and the outside of each building is part of the challenge, from the cast-iron fountain in Forsyth Park to the Gothic Revival cathedral on Lafayette Square.
- Durationabout 2 hours
- Walkingabout 56 min · 3.8 km
- Stops10
- LanguagesEnglish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese
What you do on the escape game
Solve
Work out the puzzle at every stop by observation and logic. Prior knowledge of Savannah is not needed.
Look closer
The clues sit in the surroundings of each landmark, from the details of the buildings to the features of the squares.
Walk
Follow Google Maps from one stop to the next: about 56 minutes of walking across roughly 3.8 km.
Take your time
There is no countdown. Use hints when you need them, pause for a coffee and come back later or another day.
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How it works
- Book online Choose the number of players. Your booking reference arrives by email straight away.
- Get the app Download the World City Trail app from the App Store or Google Play and enter your booking reference.
- Play when you like Start whenever you are ready, walk at your own pace and pause any time. No guide, no fixed schedule.
Who it suits
Friends
Each puzzle gives the group something to talk over at the next stop, and nobody has to know the city beforehand.
Couples
A shared challenge that keeps you talking between landmarks, with no clock ticking in the background.
Team building
Teams of up to 5 play on their own phones, which makes the game easy to arrange for colleagues.
Good to know
- Bring a charged smartphone with mobile data; a power bank helps.
- Best started in daylight, so you can see the details the puzzles ask about.
- No entry tickets needed: everything happens outside the buildings. Going inside is optional and paid separately.
- Family friendly; children must be accompanied by an adult.
- Not suitable for wheelchair users and difficult with strollers.
- Teams of up to 5 work best; bigger groups split into several teams, one ticket per player.
- Every purchase helps support stray cats and dogs in Greece.
Puzzle route: from Forsyth Park to East River Street
10 stops · about 56 min walking · start: Forsyth Park Fountain · finish: East River Street
The first puzzle waits at Forsyth Park Fountain and the last at East River Street, with eight stops in between: Monterey Square, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, the Sorrel-Weed House, Chippewa Square, Colonial Park Cemetery, the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters, Reynolds Square and City Market. Daylight makes the best start, because the puzzles are solved outdoors. Google Maps guides you between stops, you can reorder them in the app, and no entry tickets are needed.
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1Forsyth Park FountainStart
The cast-iron fountain was installed in 1858 and cast by the Janes, Beebe and Company foundry in New York. The park takes its name from Georgia governor John Forsyth, and the fountain is one of the city's most photographed landmarks.
2Monterey Square
Monterey Square was laid out in 1847 and is named after the Battle of Monterrey in the Mexican-American War. The monument to Casimir Pulaski, the Polish-born hero of the American Revolution, dates from 1853, and the nearby Mercer House became famous after the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
3Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist
This Gothic Revival cathedral was dedicated in 1876 on Lafayette Square, and its twin spires were added in 1896. A fire gutted the interior in 1898, and in 2020 Pope Francis raised the church to the rank of minor basilica.
4Sorrel-Weed House
Francis Sorrel, a wealthy shipping merchant, had this Greek Revival house built between 1835 and 1840, designed by the architect Charles Cluskey. At about 10,000 square feet it is one of the largest houses in the city, and ghost stories such as the legend of Matilda, Sorrel's wife, make it a favourite of ghost tours.
5Chippewa Square
Chippewa Square is named after the Battle of Chippewa in the War of 1812, and it is where the bench from the 1994 film Forrest Gump was placed. The statue in the centre honours James Oglethorpe, the British general who founded the colony of Georgia in 1733.
6Colonial Park Cemetery
This cemetery dates from the mid-18th century and is one of the oldest in the city. Among those buried here is Button Gwinnett, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, who died in a duel in 1777.
7Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
The English architect William Jay designed this Regency house, completed in 1819. In 1825 the Marquis de Lafayette addressed the people of Savannah from its cast-iron veranda, and the slave quarters behind the house, among the best preserved in the South, have a ceiling painted haint blue, a colour said to keep spirits away.
8Reynolds Square
Reynolds Square was laid out in 1734 as Lower New Square and is named after Captain John Reynolds, later governor of Georgia. A monument to John Wesley, founder of Methodism, has stood here since 1969, and the Olde Pink House, dating from about 1771, is the oldest building on the square.
9City Market
Trading took place on this site from around 1733, and the brick City Market of 1876 was demolished in 1954 to make way for a parking garage. Public anger over that loss helped launch Savannah's historic preservation movement, and today the old buildings house restaurants, galleries and shops.
10East River StreetFinish
East River Street runs beside the Savannah River below the bluff, where cotton warehouses once stood along the wharves. Nearby, the Waving Girl statue in Morrell Park honours Florence Martus, who waved to ships from 1887 to 1931.
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