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Oak Alley Plantation
An 1839 sugar plantation with a famous quarter-mile avenue of 28 live oaks and slavery exhibits.
Typical duration
150 min
Price
About $30 entry; tours from New Orleans $80–130 (≈ €28–120)
From port
75 km / 46.6 mi
Transfer time
70 min
Indoor / Outdoor
mixed
Queue risk
medium
🕐 Best time to visit
Morning, before tour buses and the midday heat
Oak Alley was built in 1837–39 for a French Creole sugar planter, and its alley of 28 live oaks, about 300 years old, frames one of the most famous views in the South. Guided tours take in the Greek Revival mansion, while the grounds include reconstructed slave cabins with exhibits on the enslaved people who worked the plantation. It's about 70 minutes from New Orleans by car. Many tours combine Oak Alley with a swamp tour or with the Whitney Plantation, which focuses on the history of slavery.
Getting there from the port
Book a tour with downtown pickup or rent a car: about 70 minutes upriver via I-10 and the River Road.