A Wiki guide to visiting Baton Rouge.

See also Festivals.

Things to see

View from the State Capitol Tower (Photo: users/MicheleTobias)

• Go downtown and visit the State Capitol building. Admission is free. Take the elevator all the way up to the observation deck and get a great view over Baton Rouge.
• Afterward, see the Old State Capitol, also free admission, with a giant iron staircase, stained glass ceiling, and anamatronic Huey Long.
• LSU has some free exhibits like the LSU Natural History Museum
• Visit Blue Bonnet Swamp - $3 for adults, $2.50 for students and seniors
• Say Hi to Mike the Tiger
• Stroll through Spanish Town and get yourself a soda at the historic Capitol Grocery
• Eat many delicious foods
• Read All The King's Men
• Get yourself a "Run Hard, Live Easy" T-shirt from Varsity Sports on Perkins Road
• Find yourself a "Business is good, ..." bumper sticker
• If you're a kid or a sailor or a military history buff, see the USS Kidd
• This New York Times article about game days at LSU also provides other useful tourism tips, including good restaurant advice

Also:

• Places to Stay

Further Afield

• Avery Island - home of the Tabasco distillery and an alligator-filled nature preserve
• Abita Brewery
• Tickfaw State Park (Livingston Parish) - canoe through a bayou with the snakes and spiders
• New Orleans