Experience Louisiana’s Plantation History!

You’ll take a fascinating journey back in time as you tour and explore Southern Louisiana’s most historic plantation homes and gardens. Enjoy a grand architectural voyage back in time to a slower world still populated by ghosts, Creole aristocracy and colorful stories of sugar cane plantations and the Civil War. Relive Louisiana’s grand plantation life and history by visiting these magnificently restored treasures and touring the beautiful plantation palaces, adorned with period furnishings and art. Spend the afternoon in an authentic plantation manor, stroll the oak-shadowed gardens and experience the unique history that colors Louisiana’s River Road.

• Houma's House Plantation and Gardens. Embrace the jewel of Louisiana's River Road as you relive the magnificent plantation era with a visit to Houmas House, a Greek-Revival mansion built in 1840. The grand antebellum estate is home to wonderful stories of sugar cane farming, Civil War history, early Louisiana craftsmanship, and formal gardens beneath 200-year old moss-laden live oaks.


• Nottoway Plantation. Located along the Mississippi River, Oak Alley Plantation is the “Grande Dame of the Great River Road.” A quarter-mile canopy of 28 giant live oak trees forms an impressive avenue leading to the classic Greek-revival antebellum estate from the shore of the river. The most stunning feature of this beautiful antebellum house is the colonnade of 28 Doric columns.


• Laura Plantation. Experience Louisiana's Creole culture at Laura Plantation, a historic sugar plantation built in 1805. The tour is based upon Laura's "Memories of the Old Plantation Home,” detailing 250 years of Creole women, slaves and children. Surrounded by sugarcane fields, Laura boasts 11 historic buildings on the National Register, including slave cabins where the West-African folktales of Br'er Rabbit were recorded.


• St. Joseph Plantation. Take a journey through time as you enjoy a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the interesting people who have called St. Joseph Plantation "home." Take a guided tour of this lovingly restored plantation, including the renovated slave cabins, Creole Cottages, and blacksmith and carpenter shops.

Louisiana Plantation Tour Package Includes

• Deluxe King or Queen Accommodations for 2
• Complimentary Continental Breakfast
• Two Adult Tickets to a Louisiana Plantation Home
• $95 Plus Tax (Double Occupancy)