All Other Destinations and Attractions in Louisiana
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Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe (pop. 52,000) is located on the banks of the Ouachita River. The town is the trade center of northeast Louisiana with recreational opportunities at Chennault and Forsythe parks.
Emy-Lou Biedenharn Foundation
The Emy-Lou Biedenharn Foundation complex in Monroe contains the Bible Museum, the Biedenharn Home, and Elsong Gardens and Conservatory. The non-denominational museum has a collection of historic Bibles including a 1560 Geneva Bible, a 1568 Bishop's Bible and a 1611 King James Bible. The Biendenharn home was built in 1914 by Joseph Biedenharn, the first bottler of Coca-Cola. Exhibits include china, crystal, silver and Coca-Cola memorabilia. ELsong Gardens, designed in 1946, was named after Biedenharn's daughter Emy-Lou.
Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo
More than 750 animals call the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo in Monroe home. Highlights include the Catwalk, Reptile House, Primate House and Creatures of the Night.
Masur Museum of Art
The Masur family donated their house, built in 1929, for use as a free public art museum in 1963. The Masur Museum features paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures.
Northeast Louisiana Chidlren's Museum
The Northeast Louisiana Children's Museum in Monroe features a kid's cafe, health hall, think tank and toddler town.
Morgan City, Louisiana
Although the Chitimacha Indians were the first to settle the area of Morgan City (pop. 13,000), the 18th C Acadian refugees set the character of the region. The Cajuns, as they were known, revealed their culture through food, music, language and architecture.
Turn of the Century House
The Turn of the Century House in Morgan City depicts the lifestyle of the early 1900s. Mardi Gras exhibits are featured including costumes from 1928 to the present.
Many, Louisiana
The town of Many (pop. 2,900) was named for the commander of nearby Fort Jesup. It was established as a trading post in 1843, and much of the French, Spanish and American Indian cultures are still visible.
Fort Jesup State Historic Site
Fort Jesup was established in 1822 when the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803 failed to clearly define the western boundary of Louisiana. Soldiers at Fort Jesup managed to establish law and order in the Neutral Ground and the Fort remained an important military post. An original log kitchen and replica of the officers' barracks house historical artifacts and exhibits.
Hodges Gardens, Park and Wilderness Area
Hodges Gardens, Park and Wilderness Area offers more than 40 acres of gardens, a 225-acre bass fishing lake, and many miles of hiking and biking trails.
Melrose Plantation, Melrose, Louisiana
The Melrose Plantation was first known as Yucca Plantation when it belonged to Marie Thérèse and Claude Thomas Pierre Metoyer, freed slaves. Yucca House, found on the grounds of Melrose Plantation, was built in the 1790s. The Big House is a West Indies Creole plantation house with early Greek Revival details. At the turn of the century, Melrose became the home of John Hampton Henry and his wife Camie, a patron of the arts. Many writers and artists were guests at Melrose, where Mrs Henry enlarged the garden and preserved the buildings.
Ruston, Louisiana
Robert E Russ established a rail shipping townsite in the mid-1880s called Ruston (pop. 21,000). Nearby Lake Claiborne State Park and Lincoln Parish Park provide recreational opportunities such as swimming, fishing, boating and mountain biking.
Lincoln Parish Museum
The Lincoln Parish Museum is housed in the 1886 Kidd-Davis mansion in Ruston. Artifacts and memorabilia from the area are on display. Tyhe house is in the National Register of Historic places.
Louisiana Military Museum
The Louisiana Military Museum in Ruston chronicles American conflicts from the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Displays include weapons, uniforms, and flags.
Vacherie, Louisiana
Vacherie (pop. 3,500) is an old settlement located in St James Parish on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The name means "the place where cows are kept" in Cajun French.
Oak Alley Plantation
The Oak Alley Plantation in Vacherie is a Greek Revival mansion that was named for two rows of live oaks, planted in the early 1700s. The quarter-mile colonnade of centuries-old oaks frames the classic antebellum mansion. Built 1837 to 1839, the plantation has been restored and decorated with period furniture. Located on the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Oak Alley Plantation has been called the "Grande Dame of the Great River Road".
Laura: A Creole Plantation
The Creole Plantation in Vacherie presents the Creole lifestyle of the antebellum era. The main house was built in 1805 and was a sugarcane plantation for 180 years. Family furnishings are featured inside the home with original outbuildings on the grounds. The Memoirs of Laura, a detailed account of 200 years of life on this farm, were written by the planter's daughter, Laura Locoul.
Thibodaux, Louisiana
Thibodaux's (pop. 14,000) mainstay is agriculture although the oil and gas industry is also important. The town has its own annual Mardi Gras, complete with carnival balls and parades.
Laurel Valley Village
The Laurel Valley Village in Thibodaux is made up of 70 buildings that were built in the late 1800s. Most of the structures are small, Acadian-style cabins with brick chimney's. An onsite general store contains displays of antique tools, farm implements and local arts and crafts.
Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center
The Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center presents exhibits and artifacts which tell the story of the region's Acadian population, known today as the Cajuns. Recreation, clothing and home furnishings, religion, cuisine, and fishing are featured.
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria (pop. 50,000) is located on the south bank of the Red River at the geographical center of Louisiana. It is also the commercial, educational and military center.
Kent Plantation House
The Kent House in Alexandria is a Creole plantation house built c 1796 prior to the Louisiana Purchase. Built by Pierre Baillio II, the house is an example of French colonial architecture. The walls were made by filling the spaces between the beams with "bousillage," a mixture of mud, Spanish moss and animal hair.The original house is furnished with antiques and outbuildings on the grounds include a milk house, carriage house, kitchen, two slave cabins, sugar house, barn, blacksmith shop, a kitchen dependency, an herb and vegetable garden, a parterre garden and a cemetery with original wrought iron fencing and marble headstones.
Alexandria Museum of Art
The Alexandria Museum of Art occupies the historic Rapides Bank Building circa 1898. Seven exhibition spaces present collections from around the world. Fine art and Louisiana folk art and crafts are highlights.
Alexandria Zoo
The Alexandria Zoo was founded in 1926. It is home to more than 500 animals on 33 acres of ground. Native Louisiana flora and fauna as well as habitats are featured.
Arna Bontemps African American Museum
The Arna Bontemps African American Museum in Alexandria is the restored childhood home of Arna Bontemps - poet, author, anthologist, and librarian. He was considered the leading authority of the Harlem Renaissance.
Jennings, Louisiana
Jennings (pop. 11,000) was founded in 1884 as a wheat-growing area but farmers switched to growing rice. In 1901, oil was discovered 5mi/8km northeast of Jennings. This brought a rush of oil developers to the area.
WH Tupper General Merchandise Museum
The WH Tupper General Merchandise Museum in Jennings houses the entire inventory of a rural general store that closed in 1949. Exhibits include toys and games, period fashions, fabric, patent medicine, school supplies, antique automobile parts and hardware. Many items are in unopened packages or original display boxes. The Louisiana Telephone Pioneer Museum is housed within the same building. Exhibits include equipment, tools and telephones representing a century of telephone communication.
Zigler Museum
The Zigler Museum in Jennings contains realistic Louisiana wildlife dioramas, wildfoul carvings, Audubon's Double Elephant Folio of Birds of North America and the Wildlife Art Collection. The museum is housed in a converted brick Colonial home.
Houma, Louisiana
Houma, south-west of New Orleans, is a very good base from which to explore the adventurous, romantic landscape of the Mississippi Delta, either on the "Bayou Drive" (LA 56 and 57) or by boat. Various companies offer "swamp tours", including Annie Miller whose restaurant also serves delicious Cajun food.Houma (pop. 32,000) was founded in 1810.
Southdown Plantation (Terrebonne Museum)
The Southdown Plantation House in Houma was built in 1859. It is a sugar manor house and home to the Terrebonne Museum of history and culture. The home was built as a one-story Greek Revival house by sugar planter William J Minor. His son, Henry C Minor added the second floor and Victorian-style architectural features in 1893.Exhibits include original bedroom furniture of the Minor family and other antique furnishings; a history and culture room; a Mardi Gras room; a Native Peoples room; works by local artists; a sugar industry room; Boehm and Doughty porcelain birds; Charles Gilbert art collection; Thad St. Martin literature collection; and a restored 1880's plantation worker's cabin.
A Cajun Man's Swamp Cruise
A narrated tour of Louisiana swamps feature alligators, nutria, possums, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, deer, bird rookeries of egrets, herons, cranes, french ducks, wood ducks, and many other species such as mocking birds, red birds, and blue jays.
Franklin, Louisiana
Franklin (pop. 8,000) was founded in 1800 by Pennsylvanian Guinea Lewis who named the town for Benjamin Franklin. The town is a salt-mining, sugar-refining and carbon-black operations center.
Oaklawn Manor
Constructed in 1837 during the Greek Revival period, Franklin's Oaklawn Manor was the center of one of the first sugar cane plantations in the area. Within the mansion is an extensive collection of rare prints and original paintings created by naturalist John James Audubon and an assortment of handmade, hand-painted carvings of various waterfowl that winter in southern Louisiana. The gardens were designed to resemble the Gardens of Versailles.
Grevemberg House Museum
The Grevemberg House Museum in Franklin is an antebellum Greek Revival townhouse, c 1851. Decorated in period furnishings, the home features Civil War artifacts, antique toys, kitchen implements and local newspapers.
Eunice, Louisiana
Eunice (pop. 11,500) was settled by early Acadians in 1894. Their influence is still visible in the historic buildings around town.
Prairie Acadian Cultural Center
The Prairie Acadian Cultural Center in Eunice tells the story of the Acadians through their history, language, music, and architecture. Artifacts such as recreation, clothing, home furnishings, religion, cuisine, and farming tell the story of everyday life.
Eunice Museum
The Eunice Museum is housed in the site of the birthplace of the town. In 1893-1894, CC Duson sold the first land sites and named the town for his wife, Eunice. Exhibits feature local Cajun and American Indian culture.
Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Donaldsonville was first discovered in 1699 and then settled in 1758 by Acadians. The town is home to several museums, the Sunshine Festival, numerous art galleries and shops as well as the second largest historic district in the State of Louisiana.
Historic Donaldsonville Museum
The Historic Donaldsonville Museum is housed in the B. Lemann & Bro. Building, built in 1877 and considered the oldest family-owned and operated department store in Louisiana. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The eight galleries highlight the Lemann Store as a mercantile business, the days when Donaldsonville was State Capital, Streets of Donaldsonville, Civil War artifacts and Historic Transportation.
River Road African-American Museum
The River Road African-American Museum in Donaldsonville was founded in 1994. It features collections that include newspaper ads for runaway slaves; obituaries of prominent citizens; certificates of midwives and rural black doctors; photos and sketches of inventors such as Leonard Julien and Norbert Rillieux.
Destrehan, Louisiana
Destrehan (pop. 11,000) was founded in 1914 as an oil refinery town. The town was founded on the site of the plantation established by Jean Noel Destrehan.
Destrehan Plantation
The Destrehan Plantation was established in 1787 and has survived Colonial and Civil wars. The main living quarters are on the second floor to protect the family and belongings from seasonal floods. Costumed guides offer tours of the house.
Ormond Plantation
Built before 1790 the 16 acre Ormond Plantation in Destrehan is modeled after sugar plantations of the West Indies. The architecture of the French West Indies style is a rare example of plantation homes.
Crowley, Louisiana
Crowley was given the nickname of "Rice Capital of America", because at one time it was a major center for rice harvesting and milling. Today, the town is noted for its annual International Rice Festival.
Crystal Rice Plantation
Settled and founded in 1890 by Sol Wright, the Crystal Rice Plantation in Crowley is a family owned and operated rice and crawfish plantation. The Plantation encompasses the Blue Rose Museum, Wright Automobile Museum, and Aqua-culture tours, which explain how rice and crawfish are grown are the same land at the same time.
Grand Opera House of the South
The Grand Opera House of the South opened in Crowley on November 23, 1901. It remained in operation for 39 years with appearances by Huey Long, Clark Gable, the great opera singer Enrico Caruso, Babe Ruth, and Madame de Vilchez-Bisset of the Paris Opera. It also served as a silent movie house.
Louisiana Political Museum & Hall of Fame, Winnfield, Louisiana
The Louisiana Political Museum & Hall of Fame in Winnfield is housed in an abandoned Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Depot and Warehouse which was relocated to Main Street.The upper level feature displays of Huey P Long and Earl K Long, including life-size replicas of each man, memorabilia from their campaigns and state offices. There are other portraits and memorabilia as well as the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame. The lower level includes local displays such as Milam's Department Store, Winnfield First Federal Savings and Loan and the Winnfield Hotel.
West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, Louisiana
Guided tours of the West Baton Rouge Museum include five furnished historic dwellings on the 3.5 acres museum campus. These include, French Creole Aillet House c. 1830, three Allendale Sugar Plantation workers cabins from 1850, 1870 and 1960 and the Reed Shotgun House from 1938. Museum exhibits include From Field to Factory and Sugar Stories that explain the history of the local sugar industry. Time line exhibit, In the Interest of Our Parish recalls 300 years of West Baton Rouge history and changing exhibits on the cultural heritage of south Louisiana are on view.
Schepis Museum, Columbia, Louisiana
The Schepis Building was constructed in Columbia in 1916 by John Schepis, a Sicilian architect who became a shopkeeper after he emigrated to America. He created life-size statues of George Washington and Christopher Columbus by designing and carving clay statues, molding them with plaster of Paris, and casting them in concrete. These monuments, located on the second floor, were his tribute to the country of his birth and his new home.
Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, Bell City, Louisiana
The Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1988 and provides habitat for native wildlife including alligators, white-tailed deer as well as more than 200 migrating and wintering bird species. The refuge has two distinct areas - the Gibbstown Unit, a freshwater haven for wildlife and waterfowl; and the East Cove Unit, a salt marsh for boats only.
Tezcuco Plantation (closed), Darrow, Louisiana
ATTRACTION DESTROYED BY FIRE.The first owner of Tezcuco Plantation, a Greek Revival plantation home, was Benjamin Tureaud. He named it Tezcuco, which means "resting place". The rooms are furnished in period and feature art collections, crystal, silver and pottery. Old oak trees and formal gardens are located on the grounds as well as a chapel, blacksmith shop and a commissary museum.
Evergreen Plantation, Edgard, Louisiana
Evergreen Plantation has 37 intact buildings, including 22 slave cabins, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Evergreen is privately owned and continues as a working sugar cane plantation.Tours highlight the 250 years of family ownership, the architectural importance of the buildings, and emphasis on the plantation's dependence on slave labor.
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, Hackberry, Louisiana
The 125,000-acre Sabina National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1937. It is home to ducks, geese, alligators, muskrats, nutria, raptors, wading birds, shorebirds, blue crabs and shrimp. The nature trail features 15 stations that allow visitors to become familiar with the Gulf Coast marsh. Bank fishing and boating is permitted from mid-May to mid-October.
Bicentennial Park and Museum, Jeanerette, Louisiana
The Bicentennial Park and Museum in Jeanerette is housed in a cypress home built in 1902. Displays in the museum depicts the last 200 years of the sugar cane industry with a short film that highlights the making of sugar.The Swamp Room has 40 native specimens of natural wildlife with a mural background. The Cypress Room has hand made cypress patterns on display.
Imperial Calcasieu Museum, Lake Charles, Louisiana
Historical displays, an art gallery, a library with a collection of Audubon prints and recreations of 19th C rooms are featured at the Imperial Calcasieu Museum in Lake Charles. The rooms include a pharmacy, a Victorian bedroom, a parlor, a country store and a barbershop. A 300-year-old oak tree is on the grounds of the museum.
Pointe Coupee Parish Museum, New Roads, Louisiana
The Pointe Coupee Parish Museum in New Roads is a rare example of a log cabin construction in a Creole house. The original portion of the house dates from the early 19th century. Before 1840, a boussilage (mud and animal hair mixture applied in between timbers) addition was made. The home is furnished in the style of a poor family during the early 19th century.
Winter Quarters State Historic Site, Newellton, Louisiana
Built in three stages by the Routh and Nutt families in 1805, the original mansion at the Winter Quarters State Historic Site was the centerpiece of Dr Haller Nutt's extensive cotton holdings. Nutt's wife, Julia, saved the home from destruction during the Civil War by feeding and housing General Ulysses S Grant's forces. Period furnishings, and copies of diaries on agriculture, and medicine are on display.
Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center, Louisiana
Exhibits at the Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center feature prehistory, agriculture, home and family, business and professions, music, food and a Hall of Fame. Highlights include the Civil War, the Geraldine Smith Welch Doll Collection, the Louisiana Video Collection Library and the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival Archives.
San Francisco Plantation, Reserve, Louisiana
Built in Garyville in 1856 by Edmond Bozonier Marmillion, the San Francisco Plantation was originally named St Frusquin, a name derived from the French slang term, sans Fruscins, meaning "without a penny in my pocket", a reference to its high cost. Five hand-painted mural ceilings, period antiques and vivid colors are highlights of the interior.
Louisiana State Arboretum, Ville Platte, Louisiana
The Louisiana State Arboretum is located north of Ville Platte. It is home to giant beech, magnolia, oak, and ash trees that can be viewed from atop the many ridges in the more than 300 acre area. Wildlife, white-tail deer, wild turkey, raccoon, opossum, fox, skunk, squirrel, and numerous species of birds, can be spotted throughout the nature trail.
Nottoway Plantation, White Castle, Louisiana
John Hampden Randolph planned and built Nottoway in White Castle in 1859, but his wife Emily, saved the mansion from destruction through heroic efforts during the Civil War. The 64-room mansion is a blend of Greek Revival and Italianate style architecture. Some of the unusual conveniences, for its time, were gas lamps, indoor bathrooms and an intercom system that used silver call bells in each room.
Fort Jackson, Buras, Louisiana
Fort Jackson was built between 1822 and 1832 and was intended to defend the mouth of the Mississippi River. The fort was used during the Civil War, and then modified in 1898 and used during the Spanish-American War. It was later used as a World War I training camp.
Houmas House, Burnside, Louisiana
The rear house at the Houmas House plantation was built in the late 1700s, with characteristics of both Spanish and rural French architecture. The Greek Revival mansion was added in 1840. The mansion is furnished with early 19th C antiques and a collection of armoires.
HJ Smith's Son Oldtime Country Store and Museum, Covington, Louisiana
The fifth generation of Smiths runs the family store in Covington. Visitors can see receipts for wagon wheels and farm implements delivered by schooners, which docked at the foot of Columbia Street. Items on display include a hand-operated washing machine, farm tools and a 1920s gas pump.
DeQuincy Railroad Museum, DeQuincy, Louisiana
The DeQuincy Railroad Museum was formerly the Kansas City Depot, when it was built in 1923, the depot was transferred to the city of DeQuincy in 1975. Railroad memorabilia and equipment including a 1913 steam locomotive, two cabooses and a 1947 passenger coach are on display.
Poverty Point National Monument, Epps, Louisiana
The Poverty Point National Monument serves as a memorial to culture that existed during the first and second millennia BC. Some of the largest prehistoric earthworks are found here. A museum, observation tower and interpretive walking and driving trails are on the grounds.
Frogmore Cotton Plantation, Frogmore, Louisiana
Frogmore is an 1800-acre working cotton plantation, with 18 buildings that date from the early 1800's. The history of the early Natchez planters and their slaves is presented. The plantation has a computerized cotton gin that can process 900 bales a day.
The German-American Cultural Center, Gretna, Louisiana
The German-American Cultural Center is a regional museum and cultural center that features the contributions of Germans in the development of Louisiana since 1721. New Orleans was a major port of entry for German immigrant through the 19th century.
Rebel State Historic Site, Marthaville, Louisiana
The Rebel State Historic Site is located 3mi/5km northwest of Marthaville. It is the site of Unknown Confederate Soldier. The Confederate soldier became separated from his group and was killed by three Union cavalrymen. A local family, the Barnhills, buried him and several generations of the family have cared for his grave.
Madewood Plantation House, Napoleonville, Louisiana
Henry Howard, New Orleans' most prominent architect, designed Madewood in 1846. The Napoleonville mansion resembles a Greek temple. A large carriage house, a riverboat captain's home dating from 1822 and Elmfield Cottage are located on the grounds.
Caddo-Pine Island Oil and Historical Museum, Oil City, Louisiana
The Caddo-Pine Island Oil and Historical Museum is located in the old railroad depot and features displays of early oil field equipment, railroad memorabilia, early 1900s postcards and photographs. The Caddo Indian Room features relics and arrowheads dating back 10,000 years.
Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum, Patterson, Louisiana
The Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum is named for two famous Louisiana aviators - Jimmie Wedell and Harry Williams - who formed an air service in Patterson in the 1928. Items on display include an airworthy replica of Wedell's "44" racer, a 1939 D175 Beechcraft or "Staggerwing" and a Presidential Aero-Commander 680.
Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site, Plaquemine, Louisiana
The Plaquemine Lock State Historic Site features a lock that was completed in 1909 and served as a short cut from the Mississippi River into Louisiana's interior. A 40ft/12m observation tower provides a view of the Mississippi River and the lock complex.
Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, Slidell, Louisiana
The Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge is located 16mi/26km from downtown New Orleans. It features more than 23,000 acres of habitats for various fish species, crabs, and shrimp; largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, and catfish; and 340 species of birds.
La Branche Plantation Dependency House, St Rose, Louisiana
The La Branche Plantation Dependency House was built in 1792 and is furnished with period antiques. Visitors can view the authentic slave quarter, the largest pecan tree in the state of Louisiana, Zachery Taylor's bathtub, and the grave of Hitler's horse - Nordlicht.
Chretien Point Plantation, Sunset, Louisiana
The Chretien Point Plantation was built in 1831 by Hypolite Chretien. This 12-room brick mansion was located on his 10,000-acre cotton plantation. Now on 20-acres, the restored house has six Tuscan columns and lunettes over doors and windows. It is now a bed and breakfast.
Heritage Museum, Baker, Louisiana
The Heritage Museum in Baker is housed in a 1906 Victorian home that offers local history displays. Heritage Village features reconstructed turn-of-the-20th-century buildings.
Walter B Jacobs Memorial Nature Park, Blanchard, Louisiana
Walter B Jacobs Memorial Nature Park is a 160-acre park that features a pine-oak-history forest and a preserve for bird-watching. Five nature trails provide hiking opportunities with wildlife and native trees.
Touchstone's Wildlife and Art Museum, Bossier City, Louisiana
Touchstone's Wildlife and Art Museum features more than 1,000 animals from around the world as well as displays of American Indian artifacts and memorabilia from the Civil War and World Wars I and II.
Chalmette National Historical Park
6 mi. east of New Orleans is Chalmette National Historical Park, where General Jackson defeated the British forces in 1815. In the National Cemetery are the graves of 12,000 Union soldiers who fell in the Civil War.
Loyd Hall Plantation, Cheneyville, Louisiana
The Loyd Hall Plantation near Cheneyville has been operated continuously since 1800. Highlights of the home include period furniture, a suspended staircase, ornate plaster ceilings and bullet holes from during the Civil War.
Cloutierville - Kate Chopin House-Bayou Folk Museum (closed)
ATTRACTION IS CLOSED.The Kate Chopin House-Bayou Folk Museum is located on the site of Kate Chopin's home from 1879-1884. She is best known for "The Awakening" and "Bayou Folk" a collection of her short stories.
Wildlife Gardens, Gibson, Louisiana
Wildlife Gardens is a bed and breakfast that lets visitors wander the gardens, which surround a natural swamp; view native plants and animals; and feed the alligators.
Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge, Jena, Louisiana
The Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1958. It has nature trails, an observation tower, and natural habitat for native and migratory waterfowl, alligators, beavers, deer, bobcats and otters on more than 25,000 acres.
Louisiana State Cotton Museum, Lake Providence, Louisiana
The Louisiana State Cotton Museum in Lake Providence preserves the history and heritage of cotton cultivation and its influence on life in Louisiana. Exhibits include an 1840's farmhouse, a 1920 Gullet Cotton Gin, and a sharecropper's cabin.
Fort Polk Military Museum, Leesville, Louisiana
Displays at the Fort Polk Military Museum include uniforms, insignias and small arms of the 12th US division that served at the fort. A 2.5-acre park has artillery pieces, tanks, helicopters and other vehicles.
Mansfield State Historic Site, Mansfield, Louisiana
The Mansfield State Historic Site was the site of battle of the Red River campaign in 1864. Mansfield State Historic Site has a museum that exhibits Civil War weapons, arms, uniforms, letters, diaries, and documents.
Germantown Colony and Museum, Minden, Louisiana
The Germantown Colony was founded by German settlers in 1835 and operated under a communal system. The original kitchen, dining hall and one cabin at the Germantown Colony and Museum feature artifacts used by the settlers.
Kisatchie National Forest, Pineville, Louisiana
The more than 600,000 acre Kisatchie National Forest provides many recreational opportunities such as camping, picnicking, swimming, fishing, boating, hiking, hunting, horseback riding, sightseeing, and road and mountain bicycle riding.
Port Hudson State Historic Site, Zachary, Louisiana
Port Hudson was the site of a 48 day siege during the Civil War. The battle was for Port Hudson and control of the Mississippi River. The site features a museum, outdoor cannon displays and an observation tower.
Global Wildlife Center, Folsom, Louisiana
Global Wildlife Center is home to more than 3,000 animals in a 900-acre park. Visitors can travel on the guided Safari Wagon tours.
Torres' Cajun Swamp Tours, Kraemer, Louisiana
The Torres' Cajun Swamp Tours feature a narrated boat ride on Bayou Boeuf swamp with sights such as alligators, turtles, snakes, herons, egrets, and nutria.
Hypolite Bordelon Home and Visitor Center, Marksville, Louisiana
The Hypolite Bordelon Home was built in the late 18th C in Marksville. The home features Louisiana-French architecture. Furnishings are of the early 19th C.
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