Destinations · Louisiana
Plaquemine
LA · 30.2842, -91.2406
From Plaquemine, Louisiana, Byway's registries place 5 scenic byways within 30 miles.
Understand
The languid streets of this town hugging the Mississippi River seem to belie its booming entrepreneurial cotton market of the past, or the ugly race riot here of 1963 where white law enforcement descended upon a group of black protesters with horses and cattle prods, trying to root out a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) named James Farmer. But it is a tranquil setting along the river, especially when visiting its main attraction, the Plaquemine Lock, and witnessing the grandeur of water and engineering.
Day-trip loops
Baked loops for Plaquemine are growing. The weave below is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway · inside
- Great River Road · 2 mi · national
- River Road Scenic Byway · 3 mi · national
- Bayou Teche Scenic Byway · 26 mi · national
- Promised Land Scenic Byway · 26 mi
Named places
- Iberville Museum · 1 mi
- Gary J. Hebert Memorial Lock House · 1 mi
- Morrisonville · 3 mi
- WHITE ALDER Memorial Light 195A · 7 mi
- National Hansen's Disease Museum · 9 mi
- Carville Hansen's Disease Museum · 9 mi
- National Hansen’s Disease Museum · 9 mi
- Mike the Tiger Habitat · 10 mi
A day out of Plaquemine, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Port Allen · 12 mi
- Baton Rouge · 13 mi
- River Parishes · 13 mi
- Atchafalaya Basin · 25 mi