1Lake Pontchartrain
Estuary located in southeastern Louisiana, United States.
Attractions near Monticello
USS Kidd & 20 more attractions near Monticello
Visitors to Monticello can choose from 6 museums, 3 gardens and 2 stadiums & arenas. All of it lies outside: 14 places within 40 miles, none inside Monticello. Lake Pontchartrain lies 60 mi out, the pick for a day trip.
Attractions nearby
21
within 60 miles
The big one
9 mi
USS Kidd
Big draws
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100K+ Wikipedia readers a year
Museum · 9 mi west
USS Kidd
1943 Fletcher-class destroyer.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
The map
Mapped
The list reaches out to Whitney Plantation Historic District, 39 mi away.
Orange: Monticello. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
Everything nearby
All of them, one by one
The list runs to 21 places, all within 60 miles.
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4Whitney Plantation Historic District
US museum in Louisiana devoted to the history of slavery for sugar cane production on 2,000 acres.
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14Shaw Center for the Arts
Performing arts center, arts museum, and education center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot
Museum located in a historic railway station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Independence Park Botanic Gardens
Botanical garden in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Louisiana State Museum – Baton Rouge
Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Monticello →
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Photo credits
Lake Pontchartrain: Mersh13, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tiger Stadium: Daniel Foster, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Kidd: Cobatfor, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Whitney Plantation Historic District: Bill Leiser, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Pete Maravich Assembly Center: Spatms, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pontchartrain Center: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY 3.0 · Afton Villa Gardens: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Baton Rouge Zoo: Kkmurray, CC BY 2.5 · Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site: Mike (msm62166), CC BY 2.0 · Shaw Center for the Arts: UrbanPlanet BR (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot: Niagara, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Edward Douglass White House: Z28scrambler, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Highland Road Community Park: Spatms, CC BY-SA 4.0 · LSU Hilltop Arboretum: H.dryad, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Louisiana State Museum – Baton Rouge: see above, CC BY 3.0 · Louisiana State Museum – Patterson: HistLA1, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Know a spot visitors miss?Locals know the overlook without the crowds and the diner the tour buses skip.
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