Nottoway s more than 50,000 square feet date from just before the Civil War. Tours of the plantation given 9 am-5 pm daily. A restaurant is on site. Evergreen Plantation , a national historic landmark dating from 1790, is the South s largest intact plantation. Newly opened to the public, the site remains a working sugarcane plantation.
Prices vary, reservations required.
Cypress Swamp Tours , south of New Orleans, offers a five-hour tour which departs from the French Quarter at 9 am and 1 pm. Activities include a two-hour narrated swamp cruise and a tour of Destrehan Plantation. Prices for other tours vary, group rates available. Most major credit cards. Honey Island Swamp Tours takes visitors north of Lake Pontchartrain for a look at the Honey Island Swamp, with two-hour tours sometimes conducted by a wetlands ecologist.