Alex Box Stadium - Baseball stadium for LSU.
Baton Rouge River Center - Entertainment complex.
Baton Rouge Zoo - BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo is home to over 1,800 animals from around the world. The Baton Rouge Zoo was the first zoo in Louisiana to achieve the distinguished honor of being accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.
Blue Bayou Waterpark - Blue Bayou has over 20 water rides. Favorites are the "Mad Moccasin," "Conja" and "Racers."
Dixie Landin' Amusement Park - Dixie Landin' contains 26 rides, 10 games and more. Contains such rides as the "Ragin' Cajun," "Flyin' Tigers," "Gilbeau's Galaxi" and "The Glimmer."
Capitol Lakes - located north of the State Capitol.
Celebration Station - Contains large Arcade Center, Miniature Golf, Go-Karts and Batting Cages.
F.G. Clark Center - basketball arena for Southern University.
The Herbarium of Louisiana State University
Huey Long Field House - one-time student union for LSU. When built, it featured the largest indoor swimming pool in the country at that time.
Independence Park Botanic Gardens - Includes a rose garden, crape myrtle garden, sensory garden, children's forest, and Louisiana iris garden.
Memorial Stadium - 21,395-seat football stadium. Was built in 1956 in memory of the men and women who fought and served Baton Rouge during the two World Wars and the Korean War.
Laurens Henry Cohn, Sr. Memorial Plant Arboretum - contains more than 120 species of trees and shrubs on 16 acres.
Louisiana Arts and Science Museum - Contains art and science galleries, an Ancient Egypt Gallery, and simulated space travel in the Challenger Learning Center. LASM is also home to the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium and ExxonMobil Space Theater, which offers planetarium shows and large-format films.
Louisiana Museum of Natural History - Contains two main exhibit areas, one in the Textile and Costume Museum, the other in the Museum of Natural Science.
Louisiana State Capitol - tallest state capitol building in the United States.
Louisiana State University - One of only thirteen American universities designated as a land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant research center.
LSU Museum of Art - located within the Shaw Center for the Arts. LSU MOA's permanent collection consists of about 4,000 objects with an emphasis placed on American, British, and, in particular, Louisiana art.
LSU Museum of Natural Science - Was founded in 1936. Is one of the nation's largest natural history museums, with holdings of over 2.5 million specimens. As the only comprehensive research museum in the south-central United States, the LSU Museum of Natural Science fulfills a variety of scientific and educational roles.
LSU Rural Life Museum - Commemorates the contributions made by Baton Rouge's various cultural groups through interpretive programs and events throughout the year.
LSU University Lakes
Magnolia Mound Plantation - Built c. 1791. Is a rare survivor of the vernacular architecture influenced by early settlers from France and the West Indies.
Mall at Cortana - Contains Dillards, Sears, JCPenny, Foley's and Steve and Barry's University Sportswear and over 110 specialty stores and services.
Mall of Louisiana - Contains Dillards, Sears, JCPenny, and Foley's, but will soon have a Macy's. Has over 160 stores and services.
Mount Hope Plantation
The Old Arsenal Powder Magazine - Is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Was built around 1838.
Old State Capitol - Louisiana's Old State Capitol Center for Political and Governmental History houses several interactive state-of-the-art exhibits including "Huey Long Live! The Kingfish Speaks", "We The People," "The Governor Huey P. Long Assassination Exhibit" and more.
Perkins Rowe (coming soon) - A town center with residences, theatres, and specialty shops.
Pete Maravich Assembly Center - The "PMAC" is a 13,472-seat multi-purpose arena. The arena opened in 1972, and is home to the LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams, volleyball team and gymnastics team. It was originally known as the "LSU Assembly Center," but was renamed in memory of Pete Maravich, a Tiger basketball legend, shortly after his death in 1988.
Poplar Grove Plantation - Began life not as a home but as the Bankers' Pavilion at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of 1884 in New Orleans. The exposition was held at what is today Audubon Park in uptown New Orleans. Was moved upriver on a barge in 1886 and became the home of sugar planter Horace Wilkinson and his wife, Julia.
Shaw Center for the Arts - Performing-art venue and fine arts museum located at 100 Lafayette Street downtown.
Southern University - one of the most well known historically black colleges and universities.
Tiger Stadium LSU football stadium.
USS Kidd - a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the 1st ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, Commander of Battleship Division 1, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor. |