From Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' on: St. George’s list
Among the places to visit in and near St. George are 7 museums, 3 gardens and 2 stadiums & arenas. Look within 40 miles and the list grows by 12 beyond the 3 inside St. George. Beyond the town, Lake Pontchartrain sits 57 mi away.
USS Kidd
1943 Fletcher-class destroyer.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
Mapped around St. George
To the northwest is where most of the 12 lie.
Orange: St. George. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
Place by place
In town there are 3, and the list adds 20 more within 60 miles.
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4Lake Pontchartrain
Estuary located in southeastern Louisiana, United States.
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7Whitney 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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11Abita Mystery House
Roadside attraction and folk art museum in Abita Springs, Louisiana.
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Shaw 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.
Jefferson Performing Arts Center
Theater in LaSalle Park in Metairie, Louisiana, United States.
Independence Park Botanic Gardens
Botanical garden in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Louisiana State Museum – Baton Rouge
Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US.
The places inside St. George lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in St. George →
Photo credits
Highland Road Community Park: Spatms, CC BY-SA 4.0 · LSU Hilltop Arboretum: H.dryad, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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 · Abita Mystery House: Infrogmation of New Orleans, CC BY-SA 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 · 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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