Your Front Row Seat to the Ancient City is Here

Old Town Trolley Tours puts everything you want to see in St. Augustine within reach

Hop on, hop off. It’s that easy to get around and experience the best of the Nation’s Oldest City. Wherever you look, an Old Town Trolley is there ready to pick you and show you 100 points of interest around town while highly-trained and knowledgeable guides share stories spanning more than 550 years of history. Through its Historic Tours of America, visitors can step back in time and experience life in early St. Augustine.

You’ll want to see it all in St. Augustine and Old Town Trolley Tours makes it possible. From the historic views of the Castillo de San Marcos to the tastings at the St. Augustine Distillery and everything in between, getting around is easy, breezy from your front row seat.

The interior of Old Jail After Dark, with antiquated jail cells, in St. Augustine on Florida's Historic Coast
PicturedSt. Augustine Old Jail Museum

Start with a tour of the Old Jail Museum. With its original cell blocks and spooky gallows, it’s no wonder it’s listed on the National Register of Haunted Places. Both thrilling and bone-chilling, the Old Jail After Dark Tour allows visitors to participate in an actual paranormal investigation, complete with cold spots, wailing and unexplained phenomenon.

At Potter’s Wax Museum, the first and oldest in the country, over 160 wax figures of the most influential and remarkable personalities, from Elvis to Churchill and Marie Antoinette, await visitors looking to have selfies taken with their favorites. Be sure to visit the wax studio where the magic happens, as figures are sculpted, painted and prepped for their debut.

PicturedOldest Store Museum Experience

Do you like scary things? You’ve come to the right place. The Ghosts & Gravestones Tour does not disappoint. It is truly a “fright-seeing” tour as your host on the Trolley of the Doomed shares the darker side of St. Augustine’s haunted past. Hear stories of spirits encountered, tales of murder and mayhem, ghostly apparitions, hauntings and legends and so much more to make your head spin.

For something completely different, step into the time machine that is The Oldest Store Museum. Experience what a general store in 1908 would look like, complete with tonics and elixirs and even a goat-powered washing machine. There’s all sorts of gadgets and gizmos to entertain the entire family, literally thousands of objects from the days of yore on display, making this a treasure trove of authentic goodies from a bygone era.

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