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Lincoln Parish Park Thrill Ride
For nearly 20 years, mountain bike enthusiasts have been riding through the hills of Lincoln Parish Park near the northern Louisiana city of Ruston. These trails provide an unexpected challenge for...
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Chicot State Park’s Canoe Trails
The large lake at Chicot State Park seems like the perfect place to paddle a canoe or kayak. You will experience the classic Louisiana landscape here, with a shoreline and many coves filled with...
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New Orleans Historic Buildings
Look up! New Orleans historic buildings offer a window into more than 300 years of the city’s history, revealing changing architecture, growing commerce and the ways people lived in earlier times. A...
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Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials are the focus of a powerful new military history exhibit at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, where more than 120 artifacts trace the story of World War II from the...
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Bourrè
A good cajun bet Cajuns have played bourrè, a popular south Louisiana card game, for generations. And if you end up with a bad hand of cards, it can be a costly loss. La Maison de Begnaud – a Cajun...
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Jungle Gardens
Avery Island and its Jungle Gardens seem a world away from the flat land of sugarcane fields and pastures that surround this south Louisiana tourist destination. It’s only a ten-minute drive south of...
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Aeolian Organ
The Aeolian organ has found its voice once again in New Orleans’ French Quarter. After a complete restoration, a 100-year-old self-playing pipe organ is filling the halls of The Historic New Orleans...
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Caroline Dormon
a gift of nature A woman named Caroline Dormon spent her life trying to preserve Louisiana’s native plants and natural landscapes. And when she died a half-century ago, Dormon left all of her land to...
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The Disease at Carville
For much of the 20th century, people diagnosed with disease of leprosy were sent to Carville, Louisiana, a federal treatment center along the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge. Anne Harmon Brett,...
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Louisiana Wetlands
The Louisiana wetlands are at the heart of a new educational destination in the town of Jean Lafitte. At the center, visitors can explore the history, culture, seafood industry and fragile coastal...
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Boat Builder
A long-time boat builder who once constructed large shrimp trawlers along Bayou Lafourche is now focused on smaller boats and passing his skills to the next generation. At 88 years old, Melvin “Peta”...
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Poverty Point Cabins at Sunset
The sunset view from the back deck of the Poverty Point cabins is amazing. It’s the perfect way to end of day of fishing, swimming or hiking at this north Louisiana State Park. Perfect view of sunset...
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Civilian Conservation Corps
The Civilian Conservation Corps left a lasting mark on north-central Louisiana, where young men struggling through the Great Depression helped replant the newly-created Kisatchie National Forest. A...
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Cajun D-Day Paratrooper
A Cajun paratrooper from south Louisiana is still remembered in a small village in Normandy, France, where a tragic D-Day battle ended in massacre, heartbreak, and a wartime love story that remained...
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General Mercantile Store
The historic Kaffie-Frederick General Mercantile Store along Front Street in Natchitoches continues to do business much the same way it did more than a century ago, giving visitors a glimpse into a...
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First Helicopter
Long before modern aviation embraced the first helicopter, a Louisiana inventor from Alexandria was already imagining a machine that could rise straight into the air. Leo Ortego served in the U.S....
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Louisiana Arboretum
The Louisiana arboretum just outside Ville Platte, tucked inside Chicot State Park, offers visitors a walk through some of the state’s most diverse natural landscapes—all in one place. Spanning 600...
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Preservation Hall
When you step inside Preservation Hall, you can feel the old wooden floor sag beneath your feet. And the room is dimly lit with walls that haven’t been painted in decades. There is something else...
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Carnivorous Plant
A carnivorous plant, known as the pitcher plant, thrives in the piney woods of Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest near Pitkin. Following orange trail markers off Bailey Road leads into a quiet...
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Cammie Henry
In the early 20th century, Cammie Henry emerged as a visionary woman, transforming her Melrose Plantation in Louisiana into a sanctuary for renowned Southern writers and artists. She captured the...
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