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

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

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 2009 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

Wildlife

See Alligators, Bald Eagles, Bobcats, black bear ....

Bird Watch ... Osprey, Bald Eagle, Red Tail Hawk ..... more than 400 different species of birds,

Hunt deer, quail, bobcat, raccoon, opossum, turkey, duck .....

Fish offshore in the Gulf of Mexico out of Grand Isle, Empire and Cocodrie for Tarpon, tuna, marlin, cobia, grouper, sailfish .....

Fish inland lakes, rivers, streams .... for catfish, bass, trout, redfish ....

List of Wildlife areas

• America's Wetland Birding Trails
• Atchafalaya Basin
• Atchafalaya Heritage Area
• Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge
• Benton's Cypress Black Bayou Nature Park
• Barataria Loop - south of New Orleans
• Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge
• Creole Nature Trail
• Jean Lafitte National Historical Park's Barataria Preserve
• Kisatchie National Forest
• Madisonville March
• McGee's Landing - swamp tours
• Northlake Nature Center
• Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
• Tensas River Basin

Audubon Golf Trail

Atchafalaya Golf course is located at Idlewild, Patterson

Audubon Park Golf Club is located at New Orleans Historic District. For nearby lodging see New Orleans hotels.

Black Bear Golf Course is located in Delhi. For nearby lodging see Delhi hotels.

Calvert Crossing is located at Calhoun.

Carter Plantations is located at Springfield. For nearby lodgin see Springfield hotels.

Cypress Bend is located at Many. For nearby lodging see Many hotels.

Gray Plantation is located at Lake Charles. For nearby lodging see Lake Charles hotels.

Oak Wing Golf Club is located at Alexandria. For nearby lodging see Alexandria hotls.

Olde Oaks Golf Club is located at Bossier City. For nearby lodging see Bossier City htels.

Tamahka Trails is located at Marksville near Pineville. For nearby lodgins see Pineville hotesl.

The Island is located at Plaquemine near Baton Rouge. For nearby lodgins see Baton Rouge htoels.

TPC of Louisiana is located at New Orleans. For nearby lodgings see New Orleans hotles.

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