Travel Information for Louisiana Hotel Guests
If you are searching for an inn, hotel, motel or resort near a Louisiana attraction, amusement and theme parks, or close to shopping, cultural events, historic sites, museums and performing arts centers, or nearby zoos, a festival, a golf course, a Louisiana state park, this is where you will find it.
LOUISIANA's exciting attractions are as diverse as its many cultures, from casinos and nightlife, to plantations and museums, to restaurants, music venues and marinas, and not forgetting its Mardi Gras on the Tuesday before ash Wednesday. Visitors can check out the year-round Mardi Gras exhibits in museums across the state.
ALEXANDRIA/PINEVILLE are twin cities at the very heart of Louisiana in the Crossroads region and at the center of Louisiana's food, music and culture; there are several attractions, among them the Arna Bontemps African-American Museum and Cultural Arts Center, the Bayou Pierre Gator Farm, Kent Plantation House, built between 1796-1800,and the Louisiana Cowboy Town.
AVOYELLES PARISH is an area rich in history, from the famous prehistoric Indian mound site at the Marksville State Historic Site to Civil War battle sites like Fort DeRussy, and historic museums like Tunica-Biloxi Museum.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana's state capital in Plantation Country, has majestic plantations, legendary music, mouth watering cuisine, swamp tours, riverboat gaming and shopping; attractions are the Louisiana Arts and Science Center with its simulated space station & mission control center, the Art Deco-style Louisiana State Capitol, and Louisiana's Old State Capitol; there are also the Magnolia Mound Plantation, a 1790's French Creole house, USS Kidd, a restored WWII destroyer; and the lifestyles and cultures of pre-industrial Louisianians recalled at the LSU Rural Life Museum.
North of Baton Rouge, JACKSON has rolling hills and quaint bed & breakfasts and historic sites like Centenary State Historic Site, the oldest college in Louisiana.
St. FRANCISVILLE has quaint shops and dining in an historic district and two world-famous plantation homes, Greenwood Plantation, an elegant 1830 Greek Revival Mansion, and Rosedown Plantation & Historic Gardens, one of the nation's five most important historical gardens; another famous plantation home is Laura Plantation, where the Br'er Rabbit Tales were recorded.
FROGMORE Plantation and Gins is a working cotton plantation where visitors can pick cotton from late July through April.
LAFAYETTE is in the heart of French Louisiana in the Cajun Country; among its attractions are the Acadian Village, a museum of authentic Acadian houses with replicas of a store, chapel & blacksmith shop, and Vermilionville, an Acadian/Creole folklife museum.
18 miles southeast of Lafayette at St. MARTINVILLE visitors are introduced to the diverse cultural interplay among the French-speaking peoples along the famed Bayou Teche at the Longfellow Evangeline State Historic Site.
LAKE CHARLES Attractions include the Historic "Charpentier" District, the Creole Nature Trail National Scenic Byway, a vast marshland, and two wildlife refuges at Cameron Prairie and Sabine.
At LAKE PROVIDENCE the Louisiana Cotton Museum preserves the history and heritage of cotton cultivation, and its influence on life in Louisiana; South of Lake Providence is Poverty Point State Historic Site, a trading center of a 3,000 year-old prehistoric Indian culture.
Visitors to MONROE can shop at Antique Alley, view gardens, enjoy Southern cuisine and visit Louisiana Purchase Gardens & Zoo.
NATCHITOCHES, in Louisiana’s Crossroads region, is the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase Territories; with its unique brick streets, it has grown into a vibrant historic town made famous in the movie "Steel Magnolias"; there are hundreds of alligators on a working farm at Bayou Pierre Alligator Park and other attractions include a replica of the 1732 Fort St. Jean Baptiste; South west of Natchitoches at Many is the Fort Jesup State Historic Site which was established 1822.
Nestled in the Mississippi River's crescent, the NEW ORLEANS French Quarter is a world-famous blend of old and new traditions, cultures and customs. major attractions in New Orleans are the Aquarium Of The Americas, Audubon Zoo, Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras World where artists create props and floats, and Jazzland Themepark, a 140-acre theme park, still more attractions include the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans School of Cooking, New Orleans Swamp Tours through a wildlife refuge & bird sanctuary, Riverwalk Marketplace, and Steamboat NATCHEZ, a sternwheeler with Dukes of Dixieland.
A short drive from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, in Greater New Orleans is St. TAMMANY, an area of seven resort communities that is Louisiana’s largest “rural” visitor destination; the St. Tammany Trace is Louisiana's first rails-to-trails, 31-mile protected trail from Abita Springs to Slidell.
In Louisiana’s Sportsman's Paradise region, SHREVEPORT has engaging festivals, horse racing, casinos like Harrah's Shreveport Casino, intriguing museums like Sci-Port Discovery Center and its major attraction, the American Rose Center Gardens which has North America's largest rose garden with 118 acres of blooms. Along the Northwest Louisiana Scenic Byway and a network of other nearby scenic trails visitors find a side of the state that reflects lesser-known aspects of Louisiana's varied culture.
To the south of Shreveport at MANSFIELD is Mansfield State Historic Site, the site of an important Civil War battle.
Antiques, art, museums, pottery, collectibles and swamp walks await visitors to TANGIPAHOA PARISH ; Ponchatoula is known as America's Antique City; the Global Wildlife Center is the 900-acre home of many rare, endangered and extinct wild animals from all over the world.
At THIBODAUX the Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center tells the story of the Acadians who settled in southeastern Louisiana, and the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Reserve illustrates the influence of environment and history on the development of a unique regional culture. South west of Thibodaux, MORGAN CITY has an offshore drilling rig at its International Petroleum Museum & Exposition.
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