Fort Pulaski NM

Share a little time and make a big difference in your community through the National Park Service’s Volunteers-In-Parks program. We have a range of volunteer opportunities. For more information feel free to contact our volunteer coordinator at fopu_volunteers@nps.gov.

We want to thank those local community members for stopping by and giving tremendous feedback regarding our Design Concept Plan. Public comment is open through 7/12. Info and comments are captured at parkplanning.nps.gov/FortPulaskiDCP.

A couple weeks ago, while setting up for an event, park staff came across a set of deer antlers lying on the ground in the parking lot. They have eight points, making them quite large! Ranger Dana and Ranger Candice for scale.

Fort Pulaski will host a Park Day service project on Saturday, 4/15, from 9 AM to 11:30 AM. This is a family-friendly event with work for all ages and abilities. Help Fort Pulaski remains clean and pristine! REGISTRATION REQUIRED: ow.ly/SG7b50NIizw #Park Day #FindYourFort

When you visit Fort Pulaski, we recommend you take a map to explore the trails. But what happens when you don't have a map? You might get lost! That's what happened to Lieutenant Patrick O'Rorke in January 1862. He even had to be rescued by a fellow officer!

#OnThisDay in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC was a group instrumental in the restoration of Fort Pulaski. The Great Depression changed the nation and the lives of those who lived through it.

The April meeting of the Cockspur Chonricles: Fort Pulaski Book Club will be TONIGHT at 5:30pm at the Bull Street Library. We are anticipating an exciting presentation about baseball at Fort Pulaski and discussing Baseball in Blue and Gray by George Kirsch. We will see you there!

Join us this weekend to commemorate the 161st anniversary of the bombardment and surrender of Fort Pulaski! Saturday April 1 (no joke!) and Sunday April 2 will host programs and activities for the whole family including tours and cannon demonstrations! Programs start at 10am.

Today is #OpeningDay for America's pastime! Our April meeting of the Cockspur Chronicles Book Club will discuss Baseball in Blue and Gray by George Kirsch and will feature a presentation about baseball at Fort Pulaski! See you at 5:30pm on April 3 at the Bull Street Library.

It’s #WalkInTheParkDay! Can you find these views and vistas as you walk our trails? Recreate these photos by taking a selfie when you find these spots and tag us @FortPulaskiNPS! We hope you packed your trail bag -- scroll our page for some tips!

Georgia’s marshlands are a critical part of a healthy Georgia, providing everything from safe habitat for keystone and historic foodways species to buffering human cities from the effects of storm surge and climate change. But in our opinion, they’re also a spectacular view!

Did you know today is National Medal of Honor Day? The day commemorates the over 3,500 U.S. soldiers awarded their nation’s highest military decoration. Joseph Hibson, 48th New York, earned the Medal of Honor when he was only twenty years old in the attack on Battery Wagner.

National Take a Walk in the Park Day is coming up on March 30th! Before you hit the trail, get your essentials together so you can hit the ground running - or biking, or rolling, or walking, or birding! Can you think of anything we "forgot" when we put this trail bag together?

The spring equinox is upon us and while the begging of spring may be marked by a date, it is truly defined by the changes in nature we can observe around us. Our warm welcome to spring was led by our incredible fig tree located on the parade ground of the fort!

Tomorrow, Sunday March 19, from 10am to 3pm is our second BARK Ranger event! There will be adoptable dogs to meet and talk a walk with, agility courses, and even goodie bags! The event will be held in the grassy area adjacent to the Visitor Center.

Happy #StPatricksDay! Irish-American Felix Brannigan served at Fort Pulaski with the 103rd United States Colored Troops in 1865. Brannigan evolved from a bitter Irish immigrant with strong racist views to a champion of Black citizenship during Reconstruction.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Irish laborers formed a militia unit named after Irish Revolutionary War hero Sergeant William Jasper, who died in the siege of Savannah. They garrisoned Fort Pulaski when the state of Georgia seized the fort in 1861.

As part of #AmeriCorpsWeek, we wanted to highlight our #CommunityVolunteerAmbassador, Terese Glasgow, a SCAD graduate from Lansing, MI. Terese began her 50-week internship supporting our volunteer program last September. She has already done so much to grow our program!

The first Cockspur Chronicles book club, in collaboration with the Bull Street Library, was a resounding success! Library staff told us it was the biggest book club they’d ever had at their branch. Join us at 5:30 on the first Monday of every month at the Bull Street Library!

Fort Pulaski archeologists found this larger fragment of a stoneware jug in the Kitchen of the Workers’ Village. We know from the style of jug, and the brown colored glaze on the inside, called an Albany slip, that this style was common in the mid to late 19th century.

Thank you all for a phenomenal celebration of March Haynes’s birthday on Saturday the 4th! But don’t worry if you missed it! Birthdays might be a once-a-year deal, but you can find out more about March Haynes’ life every day of the year Fort Pulaski is open!