Step-On Bus Tour Guides
Step-On Bus Tour Guides
Bring your motor coach to Beaufort and we put a local guide on board. We have two main itineraries of about 2 1/2 hours each. We can also arrange a guide to meet your own timing and route.
Parris Island and the Parris Island History Museum
A guided visit to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. It is a big hit with all groups. The tour includes a ride through downtown Beaufort in your bus. Please note that buses are restricted in where they can go downtown.
- The museum is free. It accepts donations.
- The museum shows a film called “The Crucible”, about the final training event of the Marine recruits before graduation.
- Book more than 2 weeks ahead. We need the name, birth date and driver's license information of everyone on the bus. We email you the form.
Penn Center, Darrah Hall and a Gullah art gallery on St. Helena Island
Darrah Hall is the National Park Service museum of the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park. It stands on the grounds of the Penn Center, created in 1862 by Laura Towne and Ellen Murray to educate newly freed people. In the early 1960s the Southern Christian Leadership Conference met here, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Andrew Young and Joan Baez.
- At a local Gullah art gallery you hear the story of Robert Smalls, who took the steamship Planter during the Civil War and turned it over to the US Navy in a daring escape.
- You also hear about Harriet Tubman, who spent three years on and off in Beaufort and led the Combahee Ferry Raid, which freed over 750 enslaved people.
Plan your group visit
Tell us your date, your group size and what you want to see. We put together an itinerary that meets your group's needs.