Visitor guide
How to Visit Oak Alley Plantation: Hours, Prices and Getting There
The two gate tickets, the three times that decide your day, and whether the drive is worth doing yourself.
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Each post here answers one question properly. For the longer planning pieces — choosing between trips, costing a self-drive day, timing a visit by month — the guides go deeper.
On the grounds
Inside Oak Alley Plantation: The Big House, the Exhibits and the Grounds
Building by building, with the time each one takes — and why they add up to more than two hours.
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Background
13 Things Most Visitors Do Not Know About Oak Alley Plantation
Twenty-eight trees, twenty-eight columns, and a name that came from passing steamboats.
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With children
Visiting Oak Alley Plantation With Children: What Works and What Does Not
Which trips take a pushchair, the 48-inch airboat rule, and how to talk to a child about what this place was.
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Comparison
Oak Alley Plantation vs Whitney and Laura: Which Should You Visit?
Three houses, three arguments. Which one answers the question you came with — and which pairing covers two.
Read post →A post here takes one question and finishes it. A guide takes a decision and works it through with the numbers attached. Between them they cover the two halves of a visit: what is actually inside the Big House and the exhibits around it, and how to get yourself there for a price that makes sense. Still choosing which trip to book? Start with the comparison on Oak Alley Plantation Tours and come back to these afterwards.