Wormsloe State Historic Site

Yes, if you go past the avenue. The 1.5-mile tunnel of live oaks is the photograph, but admission also covers the shuttle, a museum of artifacts dug on the site, the tabby ruins of the fortified house Noble Jones built in the 1730s, the family burial site, a colonial life area with a working forge, and the trails. Give it 90 minutes to two hours.

No. The avenue is inside the entrance gate and is part of what admission buys. Once you are in, the shuttle runs the length of it every half hour from the visitor center, about 20 minutes each way, and you can hop off at the museum in the middle and board a later shuttle back.

$12 plus tax for adults 18 to 61, $9 for seniors 62 and over, $5.75 for ages 6 to 17 and $3.25 for children under 6. The ticket includes the live oak avenue, the shuttle, the museum, the 0.8-mile interpretive trail, three more miles of nature trails, the gift shop, restrooms and the picnic area. Group rates and state park passes have their own terms.

About 90 minutes to two hours: 20 minutes on the shuttle each way, time in the museum, and the 0.8-mile interpretive trail to the ruins, the burial site and the colonial life area. Add an hour or more if you walk the nature trails through the woods and marsh edge, and go in the morning if you do.

A coastal building material, the concrete of its time and place. True tabby is equal parts lime, water, sand, oyster shells and ash, the ash left over from burning shell to make the lime, mixed and poured into forms. Noble Jones built his fortified house from it in the 1730s and 1740s, and the ruin is what the shuttle takes you to see.

A carpenter who arrived in Georgia in 1733 with James Oglethorpe and the first group of settlers from England. In a colony short of people, he went on to serve as doctor, constable, Indian agent, royal councilor and surveyor, laid out the towns of Augusta and New Ebenezer, and commanded the marines guarding the coast against Spanish Florida. George II granted him Wormsloe outright in 1756, and he died as the American Revolution began. His descendants still live in the private house at the end of the avenue.

Only from the avenue. Wormsloe House is private property, still occupied by Noble Jones's descendants, and is not part of the visit. The first house on the site was a two-story timber dwelling of about 1830 built by George Jones, later enlarged by G. W. J. De Renne and renovated after Wymberley Jones De Renne took possession in 1893.

It began as a fortified guard post. Jones used the leasehold as a military position, and his tabby house was the nucleus for a garrison of marines in Savannah's outer defenses against Spanish attack. In the 1750s he used a small corps of enslaved people to cultivate some of his 500 acres. The state's interpretation covers the Native American, African and European people who shaped the site; the interpretive trail passes an Indigenous American shell midden as well as the ruins and the family burial site.

Partly. The accessible facilities are the day-use restrooms, the museum, the 0.8-mile dirt interpretive trail and the 0.25-mile dirt Pine Trail. A ranger-driven golf cart can be arranged with advance notice, and the site has an Action Trackchair. Contact the site before you go about the exact route or equipment you need; the avenue itself is a shuttle ride, but the trails are dirt.

Yes, on a leash, on the trails. Pets are not allowed in the museum or any other building. Service-animal rules are separate.

One tour in the catalog names Wormsloe, and it combines the site with Bonaventure Cemetery in a single day with transport from Savannah. Check at checkout what the listing includes in admission and walking, and whether the pickup point suits you, before building the day around it. Otherwise you drive: the site is at 7601 Skidaway Road, southeast of downtown, with parking at the visitor center.