Louisiana & Mississippi · A day worth getting out for.

Out of New Orleans.
Into the bayou.

Learn the River Road’s history at Whitney Plantation, take a swamp boat tour past cypress and alligators, catch a Saturday zydeco breakfast in Breaux Bridge, drive the Mississippi Gulf Coast or cross the Causeway to Abita Springs and Covington. We’ve put the stops, routes and practical details together so your day out of New Orleans is easier to plan.

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Bald cypress trunks hung with Spanish moss rising from the still, dark water of Lake Martin, their reflections doubled in the swamp
THE LOUISIANA & MISSISSIPPI COLLECTIONBayous. River roads. Gulf towns.Lake Martin, Louisiana
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A dirt lane under huge, moss-draped live oaks at Evergreen Plantation, with a small white cabin from the rows of former slave quarters at the leftHistory & heritage
French Quarter → Whitney Plantation → Lunch in Vacherie → Laura Plantation → Oak Alley → Veterans Memorial Bridge

River Road Plantations

A day up the Mississippi River Road from the French Quarter, led by Whitney Plantation, the museum that tells plantation history from the side of the people enslaved there, then Laura's Creole farmstead and its 1840s cabins, lunch in Vacherie, and Oak Alley's oaks and slavery exhibit, home over the high Veterans Memorial Bridge.

9–10 hour day·About 2½ hours of driving in total, on I-10, I-310 and the two-lane River Road (LA 18)
Best: All year except Tuesdays; best late October–April
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Cypress trunks and dozens of knobby cypress knees rising from a swamp floor carpeted in bright green duckweed in the Barataria PreserveSwamps & wildlife
French Quarter → Twin Canals Trail → Jean Lafitte Swamp Tours → Crown Point → Lafitte Wetlands Center → Westwego Shrimp Lot

Swamps & Barataria

A day in the cypress swamps and bayous south of New Orleans: an early alligator walk on the one open trail in the Barataria Preserve, a guided swamp boat tour, a bayou-side lunch at Crown Point, the boardwalk and new wetlands center in Jean Lafitte, and fresh shrimp from the Westwego lot on the way home.

8–9 hour day·About 1½ hours of driving in all, on the West Bank south of New Orleans
Best: All year; best March–May and October–November
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Bald cypress trunks hung with Spanish moss rising from the still, dark water of Lake Martin, their reflections doubled in the swampFood, swamp & Acadian heritage
New Orleans → Breaux Bridge → Lake Martin → St. Martinville → Longfellow-Evangeline → Atchafalaya Welcome Center

Cajun Country: Breaux Bridge & Lake Martin

A long Saturday west across the Atchafalaya Basin: zydeco and boudin for breakfast in Breaux Bridge, cypress, birds and alligators at Lake Martin, the Evangeline Oak and Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, a Creole cottage on Bayou Teche, and the Atchafalaya Welcome Center on the way home.

12–13 hour day·About 5–6 hours of driving in total: roughly 2–2½ hours each way on I-10, plus about an hour between stops
Best: All year on Saturdays; best March–May
$4 USD
A wide, empty stretch of pale sand beach with footprints, a line of dune fencing and calm blue water of the Mississippi Sound under a bright skyCoast & small towns
New Orleans → Bay St. Louis → Pass Christian → Biloxi → Ocean Springs → Davis Bayou

Mississippi Gulf Coast

A full day east of New Orleans along the Mississippi coast: Old Town Bay St. Louis and its depot, the shrimp-boat harbor at Pass Christian, the long sand beach on US-90, the Biloxi Lighthouse and the Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum, Walter Anderson's art in Ocean Springs, and the marsh boardwalks of Davis Bayou at the end of the afternoon.

10–11 hour day·About 3½–4 hours of driving in all, including the slow US-90 beach drive
Best: All year; best March–May and October–November
$4 USD
The two-lane Causeway roadway running straight out across gray-blue Lake Pontchartrain toward a faint horizon, with the parallel span and a crossover to the leftSmall towns & lakefront
French Quarter → Causeway → Covington → Abita Springs → Abita Brewing → Fontainebleau State Park → Mandeville lakefront

The Northshore: Abita Springs & Covington

A day across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans: over the 24-mile Causeway to Covington's walkable old downtown and riverside park, the healing-springs town of Abita Springs and its roadside Mystery House, a tour and tasting at Abita Brewing, the sugar mill ruins and lakefront at Fontainebleau State Park, and sunset under the oaks on Mandeville's lakefront.

10–11 hour day·About 2–2½ hours of driving, including two crossings of the 24-mile Causeway
Best: All year; best October–November and March–May
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