Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site - Admission & Guided Tour
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Drive out to Laura Plantation to enjoy “the best history tour in the U.S.” This plantation house and Creole Heritage Site is focused on the generations of a real Louisiana Creole family, both free and enslaved, and highlights the reality of the plantation within a larger historical and cultural context. On a guided tour, you'll walk throughout the plantation house, gardens, slave cabins, and the museum dedicated to slavery to read first-person narratives of those who worked the fields. The unique Creole colors and historical elements reflected throughout, paired with the real documented stories, provide a true glimpse into the life once lived in Louisiana.
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- Hear first-hand, intimate accounts of owners, women, children, and enslaved
- Guided tour by an expert guide who will detail the history and mystery of Laura Plantation
- Enjoy acres of stunning gardens, authentic artifacts, and living history
Covid-19 Precautions: Reservations are required, Facemasks are required and there will be small controlled group sizes
Duration: 1.5 Hrs.
- Ticket for entry
- Narrated tour
- Museum exhibit "From the Big House to the Quarters: Slavery on Laura Plantation"
- Camera
- Weather appropriate attire
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Due to the historic nature of the plantation, access to the second floor is by stairs only.
- Self-guided tours are prohibited.
- No service dogs allowed.
- Not handicap accessible.
- On July 4 & Dec 24, the last tour is at 12 Noon.
- No tours on Mardi Gras day.
- Space is limited to 9 persons per tour due to social distancing guidelines.
- Children 5 & under are free of charge.
- Free parking available on-site.
- Photos and videos are allowed inside the house on this tour.
- Laura Plantation is open 7 days a week, with tours leaving at 10:00 AM, 11:20 AM, 12:00 PM, 2:40 PM and 3:20 PM
- Do not take a TAXI, UBER or LYFT service to the plantation unless your driver will wait in the parking lot for you. Laura Plantation is located in a rural area outside of these car service areas. There will be no way to get back to the city if left without transportation services.
- Tours in French are available each day by reservation subject to availability
- A moderate amount of walking is required to complete this tour.
- The plantation grounds may be wet from recent rains.
- Gift shop available onsite.
2247 LA-18, Vacherie, LA 70090, USA
Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Creole Heritage Site - Admission & Guided Tour
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