New Orleans Day Trips
Take a tour through New Orleans Plantation Country
Journey beyond the city limits and explore a place where time stands still. Nine beautiful, historic plantations await your visit, each with their own unique stories and mystique. See the extravagant homes overlooking sugar cane fields and ancient avenues of oaks. Cajun and Creole cuisine, swamp tours and great Louisiana culture all just minutes from New Orleans.
 Grayline New Orleans
Feel the gentle breeze of Southern hospitality on a tour that takes you back to the glory of the Old South! Grayline New Orleans, the world's leader in sightseeing, has been showcasing New Orleans to visitors from around the world since 1924. Visitors enjoy touring New Orleans' many beautiful and interesting attractions.
 Plantation Tours by Isabelle
Narrated scenic drive out of the city and along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to visit 3 Plantations on the East bank of the Old River Road: a pilgrimage back in time to the Antebellum South.
 Plantation Parade
For centuries, wooden wagons rumbled from fields to river docks and the sweet smell of sugarcane filled the sub-tropical air. The muddy Mississippi flowed past 400 plantations along Louisiana’s Great River Road, creating empires of wealth, icons of architecture, bastions of culture and legions of slaves.
Hear the stories of love and tragedy; success, greed and exorbitant wealth; rare architecture; or slavery and survival of strong women.
Today, only a short drive from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the historic farmsteads, homes, restaurants and inns of Plantation Parade invite you to tour, shop, dine, sleep and enjoy the full richness and diversity of our Great River Road.
Plan your journey now! The itinerary PDFs below are designed to help you “map” your route, plan your visit to the past and learn of the region’s rich heritage and way of life.
- Houmas House and Laura Plantations from New Orleans
Louisiana’s two different cultures come to life with tours focusing on Anglo and Creole owners, antebellum grandeur and rustic daily life.
- Laura and Oak Alley Plantations from New Orleans
Take the top two most popular and most visited historic attractions in Louisiana and locate them in the heart of New Orleans Plantation Country, less than an hour away from the French Quarter.
- San Francisco and Oak Alley Plantations from New Orleans
During their height of splendor, these two plantations experienced great times of wealth, romance and extraordinary grace. But their short lived prominence ended in tragedy. Come hear their stories.
- Plantation Overnight Tour from New Orleans
An Unforgettable Journey of Four Stories Long Ago, Not For Away. In one itinerary, visitors are offered 4 different accounts of River Road history and culture, with stories of immense wealth, of charmed and tragic lives, of slavery and the hardships of daily life that contributed to the rich Louisiana cultures that we know today.
Encounter an alligator at a Swamp Tour
Picture the moss hanging on gnarled cypress trees as you travel into one of the wildest and most pristine river swamps in America. With the swamp tales of pirates and sightings of Big Foot in the back of your mind, you may be just a little bit nervous at first, but after your first boat ride you'll want to go back again and again!
 Honey Island Swamp Tours, Inc.
Enjoy a trip into one of the least-altered river swamps in the country. Nearly 70,000 acres of the Honey Island Swamp is a permanently protected wildlife area. The beauty of nature surrounds you and wildlife aboundsCheck out HoneyIslandSwamp.com for more information and pictures.
 Swamp Tours by Isabelle
Driving out to Cajun Country, we go through wild cypress swamps, over the Mississippi River on an impressive suspended bridge, and along vast sugarcane fields, as our guide tells a unique story of the odyssey of the Cajun people.
 Cajun Encounters Tours
Cajun Encounters is a locally owned and operated tour company with over ten years of experience. Pride is taken on giving great, personalized swamp tours, city tours, and plantation tours to both locals and visitors to New Orleans.
 Cajun Pride Tours
Cajun Pride Tours offers tours for those with just a few hours to spare and for those who have plenty of time reserved for sightseeing. Enjoy a City Tour within just 3 hours, a swamp or single plantation tour which requires only 4 hours of your day or relax on a 6-10 hour combination tour.
 Jean Lafitte Swamp Tours
Journey by boat, Cajun-style, for a 1 hour 45 minute tour through the heart of Southern Louisiana's swamplands. Experience real-life adventure for the whole family from the comfort of the swamp boats. Tour back into privately owned meandering bayous and take a look into the past. View moss draped cypress trees, fascinating plant life and the creatures who dwell there..
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