Oak Alley & Laura Plantation Tour

From the grand mansions of the city to the sprawling estates upriver. Our Plantations Tour takes you back in time to a couple of the most famous, impressive and storied plantations of south Louisiana, Oak Alley and Laura.
The tour takes you to the beautiful Oak Alley Plantation. Famous for the enchanting corridor of centuries old live oaks that leads you up to its entrance, Oak Alley is a National Historic Landmark.

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Laura Plantation, built in 1805, is one of the region's oldest and largest plantations.

Not only do the bright and vivid colors of this Creole plantation set it apart from the others, but the guided tour told through the point of view of Laura Locoul Gore unfolds like a saga before your very eyes as you learn of the trials and tribulations that faced the women, children and slaves of Laura Plantation. Laura's book, Memoirs of Laura, comes directly from the pages of her journal providing a fi rst hand, intimate look into the lives of a Creole household spanning four generations.

Laura Plantation is credited with the origination of the Creole folktale many of us are familiar with: Compair Lapin, or Br'er Rabbit. Alcee Fortier, a friend of Laura's, would visit the slave cabins and record the tales he heard. As a teen, he began collecting these tales and they've since been published, becoming the childhood favorites we know today.

Recently refurnished according to its original inventory, the antebellum mansion now appears much as it did in 1839, when it was brand new.