Forsyth Park

The fountain. The city ordered it from the Janes, Beebe and Company catalog as Model Number 5, started putting it up in July 1858 and turned the water on that August; the design was modeled on the fountain in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The park itself dates from 1851 and grew from ten acres to about thirty. You'll find the fountain at the north end, where Bull Street arrives from the squares.

No. The bench scenes were shot in Chippewa Square, on Bull Street north of the park. The production brought its own bench and took it away, and a replica is reported at the Savannah History Museum. Forsyth is the park at the south end of the same street.

Yes, for the fountain and for the walk down Bull Street that ends at it. On its own the north end is a 20-to-30-minute stop. The southern half, with the monuments, the Garden of Fragrance, the café in the old fort and the Saturday farmers' market, is worth an hour if you have one.

About 30 acres. The original park was ten acres laid out in 1851, and the 21-acre military parade ground to the south was added as the Park Extension in 1867. Walked end to end, from the fountain to the market, it takes about an hour.

It was removed from the park in early June 2025 for the first full restoration since 1988, under a contract capped at $650,000, and it came back on September 15, 2025. The basin masonry, fence, pumphouse, plumbing and electrical work finished after that. If seeing it running is the point of your visit, check the city's project page before you go.

One set, in the eastern of the two brick forts at the center of the park, the building that also holds the café and a visitor center. The city renovated and reopened it in 2010. There aren't any others in the park, so use them when you pass.

Every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., year-round and in any weather short of extreme, at the south end of the park at Bull Street and Park Avenue. It's a food-only, producer-only market with more than 60 vendors on a typical Saturday, all from within 200 miles of Savannah. It takes cash, cards and SNAP, and doubles SNAP dollars.

Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., closed on weekends and holidays. The walled garden fills the courtyard of the western fort; the Garden Club Council of Chatham County began it in 1959 and dedicated it on April 3, 1963, with entrance gates that came from the old Union Station. There are two steps at the entrance, which puts it out of reach for some visitors.

Yes, along the park's southern boundary near Park Avenue, beside the tennis and basketball courts. On a market Saturday or an event weekend the city garages to the north are the surer bet. The parking guide has the rates and the event-day charge.

Yes. It reopened on September 30, 2025 after the city replaced and expanded its rubber surface and swapped the wood fiber for rubber mulch. There's a splash pad on the paved area beside the bandshell too, just south of the eastern fort and the café, so both are within sight of the restrooms.

From north to south: the 1947 Marine monument near the fountain; the Civil War Memorial in the center of the old parade ground, completed in 1875 with a bronze soldier by David Richards and the busts of Generals Bartow and McLaws added in 1910; the 1904 British Evacuation marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution at the south end; and the Spanish-American War monument at Park Avenue, a 1931 bronze soldier known as "The Hiker" by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson.

In the run-up to St. Patrick's Day. The Savannah Saint Patrick's Day Parade Committee announces a greening ceremony each year, at noon roughly ten days before the March 17 parade, and posts the date on its own site. That week the park and the streets around it are the busiest of the year, so don't expect a quiet photo.