Savannah Pride 2026: What to Do, Where to Go and How to Keep the Party Going After Dark
There are plenty of weekends when Savannah knows how to show off, but Pride weekend has always brought a different kind of energy to the city. By late October, the worst of the summer heat has usually eased, downtown is packed with visitors, and Savannah is settling into one of its best seasons of the year. Add thousands of people in town to celebrate Pride, and suddenly the city feels a little louder, a little brighter and considerably more colorful.
Savannah Pride returns on Saturday, October 24, 2026, with the Pride Festival taking over Forsyth Park. For visitors coming into town for the weekend, that makes Saturday fairly easy to plan. Sleep in, find brunch somewhere downtown, walk through the Historic District, and eventually make your way toward Forsyth Park for an afternoon and evening of music, performers, vendors, food and community. This year’s Pride theme is “Chosen Family,” which feels particularly fitting for a celebration built around the friendships and communities people create for themselves.
Savannah is a particularly good city for a Pride weekend because so much of what visitors want to do is concentrated into a relatively small area. Forsyth Park sits at the southern end of the Historic District, while restaurants, rooftop bars, River Street and much of downtown nightlife are all within a few minutes of one another. You can spend the afternoon at Pride, walk somewhere for dinner, have a cocktail downtown and end up in the middle of Savannah nightlife without turning the night into a complicated series of rideshares and meeting points.
Of course, anyone who has ever attended a big festival knows there is one question that inevitably starts floating around as the evening gets later: what are we doing after this?
That is exactly why Savannah Shenanigans and Glow Entertainment created The Glow Bar Crawl: Savannah Pride After Dark.
The crawl begins late enough that nobody has to leave Pride early. Check-in starts at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday night, with the group beginning to move at 11 p.m. Instead of making people choose between spending the evening at Forsyth Park and joining a nightlife event downtown, the idea is for one to roll naturally into the other. Enjoy Savannah Pride first, then keep the celebration going once the festival starts winding down.
The Glow Bar Crawl is being designed as an actual hosted night out rather than one of those enormous bar crawls where somebody hands you a wristband and a map and you spend the next several hours trying to figure out where everybody went. Local queens will lead the group through three downtown Savannah stops, with a glow-and-carnival theme carrying through the night. There will be glow sticks, body paint, games, prizes and surprises along the way, but the real point is simply to keep the energy of Pride moving through downtown together.
That hosted element is important to us because it is part of what Savannah Shenanigans has always been about. There are plenty of ways to hand somebody a list of bars. What makes a night memorable is the people you spend it with. When a queen is leading the evening, introducing people, stirring up a little trouble and making sure the group keeps moving, strangers have a way of becoming friends remarkably quickly.
It also happens to fit Savannah perfectly.
Savannah has a long relationship with LGBTQ+ nightlife and drag culture, stretching back decades before the city became the major leisure destination it is today. The Lady Chablis helped make Savannah drag famous well beyond Georgia, and generations of local performers have continued building on that history ever since. Pride weekend is an opportunity to celebrate the community during the day, but it is also an opportunity to support the local performers and nightlife that have been part of Savannah’s LGBTQ+ story for years.
One of the stops on The Glow Bar Crawl will be Electric Moon, the rooftop playground overlooking the Savannah River that has become one of downtown’s most recognizable nightlife destinations. It is exactly the kind of place we wanted worked into Pride night: bright, energetic and a little ridiculous in the best possible way. By that point in the evening, everybody has usually stopped pretending they are going home early anyway.
From Electric Moon, the crawl continues before eventually finishing at Congress Street Social Club. We deliberately chose Social Club as the final destination because we did not want the end of the organized crawl to mean the end of everybody’s night. Once the group arrives at the final stop, guests can stay and continue celebrating until close. Grab another drink, dance, meet somebody new or simply enjoy having nowhere else you need to be.
That is the whole philosophy behind the event. Savannah Pride should not hit 11 p.m. and suddenly turn into a hundred separate group chats asking where everybody is going next. We would rather have an answer waiting.
We also made a conscious decision to keep tickets inexpensive. Tickets for The Glow Bar Crawl start at only $15 because we want this to feel like part of Pride weekend rather than another expensive attraction people have to budget around. Pride trips already come with hotel rooms, restaurants, drinks, travel and everything else that goes into a weekend away. Fifteen dollars makes it easy to decide at the beginning of the trip that Saturday night is handled.
That low ticket price also makes the crawl work for people who are not arriving with a giant group. Some people will come to Savannah Pride with ten friends. Others will come with a partner, a roommate or one friend they convinced to make the drive. Some people live here and simply want somewhere fun to go after the festival. A hosted crawl gives everybody the same starting point. By the second or third stop, it usually does not matter who arrived together.
If you are visiting Savannah for Pride, it is worth turning the festival into a full weekend rather than coming in for only a few hours Saturday. Friday night is perfect for dinner downtown, a walk along River Street or cocktails on one of Savannah’s rooftops. Saturday morning was practically invented for brunch, followed by a lazy afternoon wandering the Historic District before heading toward Forsyth Park. Spend the rest of the day at Pride, enjoy the performances and vendors, and give yourself enough time in the evening to grab food, freshen up and charge your phone before the nightlife portion begins.
Then at 10:30 p.m., come find us.
There is no complicated itinerary after that. The queens have it.
That may be the best part of doing Pride in Savannah. The city is big enough that there is always something happening but small enough that the weekend still feels communal. You tend to see the same people again. Someone you met at Forsyth Park appears later downtown. Somebody introduces you to their friends. Those friends bring more friends. By midnight, the group you started the day with has somehow doubled in size.
For a Pride built around the idea of chosen family, there is something wonderfully appropriate about that.
Savannah Pride is, first and foremost, about the community that gathers in Forsyth Park and the organizations, performers, businesses and people who make that community possible. The Glow Bar Crawl is simply what we are adding once that celebration moves into the night. We wanted something affordable, local and fun that lets people keep celebrating without having to figure out the next move themselves.
So spend Saturday at Savannah Pride. Walk around Forsyth Park. Shop the vendors. Watch the performances. Meet somebody new. Take too many pictures. Wear the outfit you have been planning for three weeks. Have dinner, add more glitter than is probably necessary, and then head downtown.
The Glow Bar Crawl: Savannah Pride After Dark takes place Saturday, October 24, 2026. Check-in begins at 10:30 p.m., and the crawl begins at 11 p.m. The night includes three downtown Savannah bar stops, local queen hosts, glow sticks, body paint, games, prizes and surprises, including a stop at Electric Moon before ending at Congress Street Social Club, where guests can stay until close.
Tickets start at just $15 and are on sale now.
Savannah Pride may end at Forsyth Park, but nobody said the night had to end with it.
