Great River Road - Louisiana
Great River Road - Louisiana is a State Scenic Byway in Louisiana. Within Louisiana it covers roughly 810 miles. The map below shows its route. Use “Plan a drive” to open it in the Road Sorties route planner — already routing along Great River Road - Louisiana with scenic roads turned on, ready to add your own stops.
The Louisiana leg of the Great River Road follows the lower Mississippi between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the storied "River Road" lined with antebellum plantation homes. Oak Alley's quarter-mile tunnel of live oaks, the restored Creole plantation at Laura, and the sobering Whitney museum of slavery sit along the route, between sugarcane fields and the river levee. It ends in the heart of New Orleans.
- Oak Alley live-oak avenue
- River Road plantations
- Mississippi levee
- sugarcane country
- Baton Rouge to New Orleans
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What is a State Scenic Byway?
State Scenic Byways are roads a state has formally recognized for their scenic, natural, historic or cultural value — each state's own curated collection of drives worth taking slowly.