Whitney Plantation Tour in New Orleans booking from $84.00

Whitney Plantation Tour

Overview

Visit the Whitney Plantation of New Orleans and step back in time as you explore the 18th-century plantation museum, the only one of its kind in Louisiana. On this 5-hour tour (including travel time from New Orleans,) you’ll see museum exhibits, memorial artwork, and restored buildings. Learn about an important part of American history as recorded from first-person slave narratives.

The Whitney Plantation is a self-guided audio tour experience. Please make sure to download the Whitney Plantation app on your cell phone, tablet, or iPad to listen to an audio tour.

City: New Orleans

Wed 11 Jun

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What's Included

Round-trip transport from central New Orleans

2 hours to spend touring Whitney Plantation

Audio Tour Via Whitney Plantation App

Air-conditioned vehicle

All Fees and Taxes

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Check-in is 15 minutes prior to start time.
If the guest needs a wheelchair lift equipped bus, then special arrangements need to be made with the supplier. This must be arranged 48 hours prior to tour date. Contact details will be on your voucher.
Guests visiting Whitney using a wheelchair will have access to the gift shop, restrooms, and museum. The plantation grounds are accessible; however, there are uneven gravel paths. The main house tour is not accessible to guest traveling in wheelchairs and is not required to be modified as it is a historic home; however, the first floor is accessible. Guests would be able to view the slave quarters, but would not have access to enter.
Tour at Whitney Plantation is Self Guided
This tour includes 2 hours dedicated to exploring the grounds of Whitney Plantation. The remaining time consists of travel to and from the destination.

What To Expect

Lake Pontchartrain

Start the tour at the designated meeting point in New Orleans and journey to the historic Whitney Plantation, one of the antebellum estates located along the Mississippi River. You'll cross the Bonnet Carre Spillway, a flood outlet for the river, and see a panoramic view of Lake Pontchartrain on your way to the plantation. Pass by the Evergreen, Felicity and St. Joseph plantations, where rich crops of sugar cane, cotton, and indigo from these fertile lands once traveled to various ports of trade.

Whitney Plantation

Arrive at the Whitney Plantation, which dates back more than 260 years and is now a working museum dedicated to the understanding of slavery in the American South. Visit museum exhibits and restored buildings including historical slave cabins, some of which remain from the original 22 on-site. See the Big House, which is one of the finest surviving examples of Spanish Creole architecture in Louisiana, and learn about the daily life of former slaves at Whitney as recorded by the Federal Writers' Project. Tour at your own pace, and if you choose, download the Whitney Plantation app for the self-guided tour of the plantation. At the end of your experience, you're returned to central New Orleans.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (1000)

Rebecca_S

Mar 2025

Fantastic bus ride with a super knowledgeable driver. Visit to Whitney Plantation was sobering and eye-opening. An extraordinary place to visit and see.

Karen M

Mar 2025

Whitney Plantation was a working plantation up until the 1960s or 1970s where the descendants of the enslaved people still lived and worked. The self guided tour explained the early life of the enslaved Africans focusing completely on what their lives were like and how little we know about them as individuals who lived and died there. It was very educational and sobering— and is a part of our history that is often overlooked or glossed over. It was an excellent experience for all ages.

Delaynie_G

Mar 2025

First off the photo of the house on the ad isn't even the whiteny plantation, so that's very misleading and was disappointing as there isn't even an antebellum style house on the property. The tour itself was self guided with an audio device and no actual tour guide, it was educational, mostly about the history of the slave trade and how it came to be in Louisiana. Our bus driver was very educational though and showed us some other cool mansions along the way and had a lot of facts and suggestions of places to go in New Orleans, but honestly that's the only part I liked.

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