Eddie Romero’s Fruit Orchard
By appointment. Tour the orchard and pick your own fruits from peaches to pawpaws and citrus. Owner speaks French.
Bayou Boards and Kajun Kites
Kite boarding and stand-up paddle boarding rentals, sales and lessons. Guided scenic paddle boarding tours.
Iberia Community Garden
Mon 8AM-5PM. Community supported urban food farm focused on pesticide-free, bio-dynamic, and space intensive food growing practices. Open Mondays for tours, guest gardening and ‘harvest your own’ farm stand. Reservation required for large groups or for alternate dates to visit.
Acadian Outdoor Charters
Reservation. Swamp tours and guided fishing freshwater trips.
Shadows-on-the-Teche
Thurs-Sat 10AM-4PM. Tours at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Admission. Built for a wealthy sugar planter in 1834, the Shadows-on-the-Teche plantation was home to four generations before becoming a National Trust Historic Site. Live oaks draped with Spanish moss cast shadows on the house, gardens and Bayou Teche. Family letters and furnishings present an authentic […]
Bayou Teche National Water and Paddle Trail
Bayou Teche runs 135 miles from Port Barre to Berwick through St. Landry, St. Martin, Iberia and St. Mary parishes and is easily accessed from several state highways and Interstate 10. The trail has a total of 13 established trailheads, which provide access to paddle trips. In New Iberia’s Historic District, there are two access […]
Antique Rose Ville
Reservation only. 1830 Renoudet Cottage and surrounding gardens listed in National Directory for Gardens in America and featured on Good Morning America. Gardens include fountains, pond and bridge, native south Louisiana plants and over 100 varieties of antique roses.
Bayou Teche Museum
Thurs-Sat 10AM-4PM. By appointment for groups. Admission. State-of-the-art museum with a permanent collection of artifacts and memorabilia from the region telling the story of a growing city, its people, culture and industry, all centered around the “snake-like” curves of the Bayou Teche.
Jeanerette Museum
Thurs-Fri 10AM-4PM. Last tour at 3PM. Admission. Group tours welcome. Video on planting and harvesting of sugarcane. Sugarcane industry history exhibits and antique sugarcane harvest equipment. Local history, sewing collections, Swamp Room, Military Room, Mardi Gras Room, Cypress Room and large collection of pictures of the past in Jeanerette.
Jefferson Island Rip Van Winkle Gardens
Daily 9AM-5PM. Last house tour 4PM. Admission. Guided tours of the Joseph Jefferson Home (ca. 1870), a grand architectural masterpiece built as a hunting lodge and painting studio for famous 19th century actor, Joseph Jefferson, who portrayed Rip Van Winkle. Rip’s Rookery and semi-tropical garden surrounding beautiful Lake Peigneur. Film of the 1980 catastrophe on […]
