Louisiana

Most playgrounds give you a slide, a set of swings, plus a bench where parents check their phones.…

By Laura Benton · Jun 25

Walking past the display case, you notice the loaves before the sign. Dark crusts with slash marks that…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 25

Driving past this building, the first thing you notice is the explosion of color. Bright murals of flowers…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 24

Some cities eat well, but this one eats like nowhere else on earth. The restaurant scene here runs…

By Laura Benton · Jun 24

There is something about walking through a preserved nineteenth-century village that no museum exhibit can replicate. The creak…

By Laura Benton · Jun 24

Kids learn best when they can touch, explore, and discover things for themselves. Few states make that easier…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 24

The building looks like a house because it was one. Walking through the front door still feels less…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 23

Stepping through the front door of a home built when this was still a territory feels less like…

By Laura Benton · Jun 23

Turning off the highway onto a road that narrows between pines is the first sign you are heading…

By Laura Benton · Jun 23

Pulling off the highway into the gravel lot of a roadside restaurant standing since 1928 feels like finding…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 23

Louisiana has a way of hiding its best surprises in plain sight. Tucked inside a 503-acre state park…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 22

Rolling along a road paralleling a narrow river wrapped in Spanish moss, the landscape tells a story no…

By Laura Benton · Jun 22

I’ll admit, I have a soft spot for strip mall restaurants that smell better than they look from…

By Laura Benton · Jun 22

Pushing off from the dock, the first thing that strikes you is the silence. Your paddle dips into…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 22

Pitching a tent under a sky full of stars is one thing, but doing it where the water…

By Laura Benton · Jun 21

Ancient cypress trees draped in Spanish moss guard a winding waterway that has drawn people for thousands of…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 21

Louisiana does not need white tablecloths to feed you well. The grills on this list range from neon-lit…

By Laura Benton · Jun 21

Driving through the piney woods of Washington Parish, you might not expect to find a restaurant decorated with…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 21

Along a narrow highway paralleling a ribbon of water between two massive lakes, a hand-painted sign and a…

By Laura Benton · Jun 20

Along a narrow highway paralleling a ribbon of water between two massive lakes, a hand-painted sign and a…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 20

Beneath live oaks along a slow bayou draped in Spanish moss, it is not hard to see why…

By Laura Benton · Jun 20

Stepping through the stone archway feels like crossing into another century. The Collegiate Gothic facade rises above the…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 20

Not every sunset spot in Louisiana requires a boat ride or a long hike through swamp trails. This…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 19

A small Louisiana restaurant sits between rice fields and crawfish ponds, well off any highway most people would…

By Iris Bellamy · Jun 19

Outdoor markets that close before dark miss the entire point. This one does not even open until the…

By Laura Benton · Jun 19

Louisiana stretches farther than most visitors realize, and the day trips outside New Orleans prove it. The Creole…

By Laura Benton · Jun 19

Some sandwiches demand a dining room and white tablecloths. This is not one of those places. Domilise’s has…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 19

Louisiana feeds people well, and it does not apologize for being generous about it. All-you-can-eat here is not…

By Adeline Parker · Jun 18

There is a particular kind of curiosity that pulls you into a tea room where the menu lists…

By Laura Benton · Jun 18

Pushing open the screen door of a hardware store that opened during the Civil War and finding it…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 18

Word travels fast when a buffet is this good. A Cajun institution has been quietly earning loyalty across…

By Lenora Winslow · Jun 18

Some shops sell souvenirs and others sell something closer to an experience that makes you question whether you…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 18

Mapping a road trip around ghost stories sounds like a gimmick until you realize how many documented hauntings…

By Laura Benton · Jun 18

The little train feels like New Orleans briefly lending you its childhood for one slow loop under the…

By Laura Benton · Jun 17

Some restaurants feel designed, this one feels inherited. You walk in and the room already has a rhythm:…

By Laura Benton · Jun 17

Some estates announce themselves with fountains and ego. This one eases you in through shade, symmetry, and the…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 17

Some buildings politely ask for your attention. This one practically clears its throat from across Baton Rouge, all…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 17

Walk past the wrought-iron gates on North Peters Street, the first thing that hits you is the smell:…

By Dane Ashford · Jun 16

The pink building on Veterans Memorial Boulevard does not look like much from the outside, that is exactly…

By Laura Benton · Jun 16