New Orleans Oak Alley Plantation Guided Tour

Experience the grandeur of New Orleans’ antebellum south on a half‐day tour of Oak Alley Plantation. Take a journey through time to the manicured estate and into the gorgeous home, built in 1839. View stunning architecture, oak‐lined esplanades, and enduring sugar cane fields while learning about the plantation’s fascinating – and often somber – histories from expert guides.

Meeting Point

Gray Line New Orleans

Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office, 400 Toulouse St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA

Departs from the Gray Line Lighthouse Ticket Office at Toulouse St. and the Mississippi River, just one block from Jackson Square in the French Quarter. Please arrive 15 minutes before boarding.

What's included:

• Local guide
• Local taxes
• Guided tour of plantation home
• Round trip transportation by coach

Not included:

• Lunch

What to expect:

Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes

Oak Alley Plantation

3645 Highway 18, Great River Road, Vacherie, 70090-7079, Louisiana

Experience a bygone era in one of the South's most beautiful settings - Oak Alley Plantation, built in 1839. Marvel at the unbelievable quarter-mile long alley of 28 magnificent Oak trees, each over 250 years old.
Perhaps the most photographed plantation ever, Oak Alley has been the setting for such motion pictures as "Interview with a Vampire", "Primary Colors" and the wedding of Bo and Hope from the daytime soap opera, "Days of our Lives".
Your guided Oak Valley Plantation tour will reveal the stories of the home and its history. View the Majestic Cypress Trees in Louisiana's swamps bordering the Mississippi River. You can purchase a snack, salad or sandwich in the Cafe and Ice Cream Parlor to enjoy at the picnic tables or aboard the coach (not included in price).

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Lake Pontchartrain

, , New Orleans, Louisiana

Although called a lake, this is actually a large lagoon and brackish estuary fed by fresh water rivers and connected to the Gulf of Mexico. Covering 630 square miles (1600 km2) it is one of the largest wetlands in North America.

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I-10 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge

St Rose, LA 70087, USA

View the spillway, a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi west of New Orleans. The spillway, when open, allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River to flow into Lake Pontchartrain and thence into the Gulf of Mexico.

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St. Joseph Plantation

3535 Highway 18, , Vacherie, 70090-7073, Louisiana

Historic plantation, circa 1830, that remains a family owned working sugar plantation today along with sister property Felicity Plantation, circa 1846.

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Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site

2247 Highway 18, , Vacherie, 70090-5409, Louisiana

Historic Creole sugar cane plantation, circa 1805, and plantation complex with 12 buildings on the National Register.

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