Featuring: 10Best, Southern Living, Sunset, Coastal Living, Cottage Living, Southern Accents and Cooking Light

 

Things to do in
Baton Rouge

LOUISIANA

Things to do in Baton Rouge!

Baton Rouge Restaurants, Hotels, Bars, Clubs, Museums, Shops ...
Search all Categories for:    

The Best in Baton Rouge

Our Editors select the 10 best restaurants, nightlife, sights & activities in Baton Rouge

10Best Baton Rouge
Our 10Best Editors' Favorites in Baton Rouge


1. Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center
— Attractions & Activities


2. Casino Rouge
— Attractions & Activities


3. Baton Rouge Zoo
— Attractions & Activities


4. Hilltop Arboretum
— Attractions & Activities


5. Myrtles Plantation
— Attractions & Activities


6. LSU Museum of Natural Science
— Attractions & Activities


7. Magnolia Mound Plantation
— Attractions & Activities


8. St. Joseph's Cathedral
— Attractions & Activities


9. Belle of Baton Rouge
— Attractions & Activities


10. Louisiana Art and Science Museum
— Attractions & Activities

     

Events

Browse Events


Attractions & Activities

Best Attractions & Activities

Historic Sites

Museums


Hotels and Lodging

Bed & Breakfast / Inn


Nightlife

Best Nightlife

User Suggested

  

Restaurants

American Continental

Dessert & Coffee

International

Regional

User Suggested


Shopping

Shopping Centers


Voted Best of the City

Restaurants

see & do

Home for the Holidays: Historic Decorations, Southern Style

Historic Southern homes serve up holiday panache

Southern charm and period-style decorations make for festive December tours. In each of ten southern states there are some great historic homes, estates, mansions and plantations that decorate for the month. Here are just a few of the possibilities.

 
Baton Rouge Hotels
Save on Baton Rouge Hotels with 10Best!
Enter City:
 Nights:
 Rooms:
Check-in Date:

  mm/dd/yyyy
To book by phone call 1-800-509-5507.
Holiday Inn Express BATON ROUGE-I-10 AT COLLEGE DR
4924 CONSTITUTION AVE. · Baton Rouge, LA · 70808
 

Other Louisiana Travel Guides

From: To:
Leave: Return:
Adults:(12+) Children:(2-11)
 
Thursday
33°C/22°C
Partly sunny. Hot.
Friday
35°C/21°C
Mostly sunny. Hot.
extended forecast

About Baton Rouge

Set along the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge is a city of presence, both Louisiana's capital and seat of East Baton Rouge Parish. The state's second largest city, however, wasn't always the political and manufacturing force it is today. When claimed by the French in 1699, the area was a threshold between Bayougoula and Houma Indian hunting grounds. Marking the division was a stripped tree, reddened with the blood of slaughtered animals. Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, a Frenchman leading...