Great River Road - Louisiana
773 miles - One to two days for a self-guided tour of each area
More than 700 miles of public highways and streets connect leisure travelers--residents and visitors alike--with Louisiana’s rural towns, historic sites, Antebellum homes and plantations, the state capitol, New Orleans’ French Quarter and history of the Louisiana’s Purchase, and all the local food, music, and amazing sights in between.
For decades, leisure travelers from around the world have been drawn to the Louisiana Great River Road. The “Mighty Mississippi,” “River Road Plantations,” blues and jazz, swamp tours, Cajun and Creole culture and cooking, Mardi Gras, pilgrimage, and tracing the tracks of early explorers and the marches of Civil War campaigns are longstanding travel motivations that continue through today and bring people to these 700 miles of the Great River Road.
- Angola Prison Museum
- Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge
- Audubon Park and Zoo
- Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge
- Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
- Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge
- Byerley House
- Café du Monde
- Canal Street
- Capitol Park Museum
- Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge
- Chalmette National Historic Park and Battlefield - National Cemetery
- Delta Music Museum
- Delta National Wildlife Refuge
- Destrehan Plantation
- Evergreen Plantation
- Fort Jackson and St. Philip
- French Quarter Historic District
- Frogmore Cotton Plantation & Gins
- Grant's Canal Historical Landmark
- Great River Road Museum
- Gretna Historical Society Museum
- Houmas House Plantation and Gardens
- Jackson Barracks Military History & Weapons Museum
- Jackson Square
- Lake Ophelia National Wildlife Refuge
- Laura Plantation
- Los Islenos Museum & Village
- Louisiana State Capitol
- Louisiana State Cotton Museum
- Louisiana State Museum - Cabildo and Presbytere
- Louisiana State University
- Louisiana Sugarcane Museum at St. Joseph & Felicity Plantations
- Louisiana's Old State Capitol and Museum of Political History
- LSU Rural Life Museum
- Magnolia Mound Plantation
- Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge
- Mississippi River - Vidalia Waterfront
- Morganza Flood Control Structure
- National World War II Museum
- Nottoway Plantation
- Oak Alley Plantation
- Ogden Museum of Art
- Old Governor's Mansion
- Old River Lock
- Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site
- Pointe Coupee Parish Museum
- Port Hudson National Cemetery
- Port Hudson State Historic Site
- Poverty Point World Heritage Site
- River Road African American Museum
- Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
- Shaw Center for the Arts/LSU Museum of Art
- St. Catherine Creek National Wildlife Refuge
- St. Charles Avenue
- Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge
- Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge
- USS Kidd Veterans Museum
- West Baton Rouge Museum
- West Feliciana Historical Society and Museum
- Whitney Plantation
- Windrush Gardens