On Campus:

·         Visit Mike the Tiger*

·         Play on the Indian Mounds*

·         Ice cream at The Dairy Store

·         Natural Science Museum (Foster Hall- Dalrymple; M-F 8:00-4:00)*

·         Textile and Costume Museum (M-F 8:00-4:30)*

 Baton Rouge:

·         Hilltop Arboretum*

·         Rural Life Museum ($9 adults, $7 seniors and LSU people)

·         Bluebonnet Swamp ($2 admission)

·         Downtown- capitol, old capitol, old governor’s mansion, Mississippi River*

·         Friday night: observatory lecture (7:30)*

·         Pennington hot air balloon festival (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)*

·         Frolf at Highland Road Park*

·         Check out the cemeteries*

·         Miniature golf (normal mini golf costs)

·         Order Begnets at Coffee Call (similar to Café Du Monde in NOLA)

 Lafayette:

·         Saturday morning: Zydeco breakfast (cover charge + cost of breakfast)

·         Lake Martin cypress swamp & rookery (Nature Conservancy)*

 New Orleans

·         Audubon Aquarium, Zoo, Insectarium (admission costs vary)

·         Jean Lafitte National Park*

·         French Market* & Café Du Monde

* FREE

 

Most of the points on here are restaurants.  Other highlights include LSU and my apartment (the point on Arlington Ave.).  Zoom in on campus to see where the buildings are!  My department building isn't on there, though.  It's marked with a google map balloon on the corner of Tower and Highland.