Louisiana Tourism - Attractions, Festivals

Festivals - When & Where

Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in Louisiana that is celebrated before Lent.

• City of Lights celebration is held in Natchitoches.
• Holiday in Dixie festival is held in Shreveport.
• Mardi Gras 2008 is going to start February 5.
• Mardi Gras 2010 is going to start February 24.
• New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is held in April.
• Ruston's Squire Creek Louisiana Peach Festival

 

Haunted Places

• The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville - ghost tours and B&B.
• Chretien Point Plantation in Sunset.
• New Orleans cemeteries

Regions

• Central - Crossroads
• Greater New Orleans
• Gulf Coast - Cajun country - Lake Charles, Lafayette, Gulf Isle
• Northern region - Sportsman's Paradise - Monroe, Shreveport
• Plantation Country- Baton Rouge Area, St. Francisville

 

Louisiana Tourist Attractions - Highlights

• Bossier City
  • Eighth Air Force Museum
• Crowley
  • Kelly's Landing agricultural museum and tours
• Folsom is just outside New Orleans
  • Global Wildlife Center
• Lafayette
  • Arcadian Village
• Lake Charles
  • children's Museum
• Monroe
  • Louisiana purchase gardens and Zoo
  • Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum
  • Antique Alley
• Natchitoches
  • Bayou Pierre Alligator park
• New Orleans
  • Audubon zoo
  • French Quarter
  • Fine Restaurants
  • Louisiana children's museum
  • National WWII museum
• Patterson
  • Wedell-Williams Memorial Aviation Museum
  • Cypress Sawmill Museum
• Shreveport
  • Sci-Port Discovery Center
  • Casinos
  • Red River District
  • The Stage of Stars Museum
  • Gardens of the American Rose Center
• State Parks
• Thibodaux
  • E.D. White Site
• Winfield
  • Louisiana Political Museum