Candlelight Evening Tour at Laura Plantation
Explore Louisiana Créole history by candlelight
Duration
1.5 hrs
Ideal For
12 people
Includes
Evening tour, Light refreshments
Highlights
Step into an evening of true stories not told on daytime tours at Laura Plantation. This experience runs only on Fridays from October 9–30, 2026.
- Follow your flashlight through the candlelit Big House, gardens, and slave quarters
- Trace four generations of one Louisiana Créole family
- Explore stories of sorrow, exploitation, resistance, and survival
What's Included
- Light refreshments
Important details
- Ages 15+ only. The experience includes adult themes and language.
- Arrange your own transportation; transportation is not included. The plantation is outside public transit and taxi or rideshare service areas. If you take a taxi or rideshare, arrange for the driver to wait on site and drive you back after the tour.
- Check in before the 7:00 pm start. The store opens at 6:30 pm.
Cancellation Policy
No refunds unless the plantation is closed. For weather closures, other arrangements are available. If your itinerary changes, tickets remain valid for 30 days. If you arrive after your tour begins, you'll be placed on the next available tour.
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FAQs
Laura Plantation is a one-hour drive from central New Orleans, in a rural agricultural area.
Meeting details
Laura Plantation Store Gift Shop, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, LA 70090
Related locations
Laura Plantation
Admission includedStanding along the west bank of the Mississippi River in Vacherie, Louisiana, Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Créole Heritage Site pulls you into a world shaped by four generations of a Créole family and the hundreds of enslaved people who built it. The ochre-painted main house and its surrounding dependencies carry a weight of real, documented history. Unlike many plantation sites, Laura Plantation: Louisiana's Créole Heritage Site centers the full story, drawing on more than 5,000 pages of family documents to illuminate daily life, labor, and culture across nearly two centuries of Louisiana's past.
