The HauntBound Trail · Louisiana
The Louisiana Haunted Trail
Louisiana's haunted geography splits in two: the crowded, commercialized blocks of the French Quarter, where nightly walking tours cover the LaLaurie house and Storyville's ghosts, and a quieter interior that most visitors skip. North and central Louisiana keep their own record, parish courthouses with named apparitions and hundred-year-old dining rooms that still set a table for the dead. Nearly a hundred stops make up the statewide network, spread from river towns to bayou parishes. The featured route runs the quieter half, a short northbound drive through Alexandria, Monroe, and Shreveport for readers who already know the Quarter.
The state of the state
100 Verified stops
9 Regions
57 Wheelchair accessible
Every stop verified by HauntBound.
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The curated weekend cut
HauntBound's editors picked 8 daytime stops and 3 overnight inns from the 100 places below and mapped them in driving order, with drive times, the full stories, and a printable field guide. Free by email.
Key MUS Museum / Historical SiteCEM Cemetery / Burial GroundTHT Theater / Performance VenueINN Haunted Hotel / InnBAR Haunted Dining / BarTUR Ghost Tour / Walking TourPRS Prison / ReformatoryCRM True Crime SiteOUT Outdoor / Natural SiteHSE Haunted House / Historic HomeMIL Battlefield / Military SiteOTH Other Dark Tourism Site
Southern
22 stops CEM Baton Rouge National Cemetery Baton Rouge Fam INN Bourbon Orleans Hotel New Orleans MUS Destrehan Plantation Destrehan MIL Fort Jackson Buras INN Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center Baton Rouge Fam INN Houmas House Plantation Darrow Fam MUS Joseph Jefferson Mansion at Rip Van Winkle Gardens New Iberia Fam MUS Louisiana's Old State Capitol Baton Rouge Fam OTH LSU Pleasant Hall Baton Rouge Fam CEM Magnolia Cemetery Baton Rouge OUT Mary Jane's Bridge Broussard CEM Metairie Cemetery New Orleans Fam OTH Morrisonville Ghost Town Site Plaquemine BAR Muriel's Jackson Square New Orleans Fam MUS Oak Alley Plantation Vacherie Fam MUS Old Arsenal Museum & Powder Magazine Baton Rouge Fam MUS Pentagon Barracks Baton Rouge Fam HSE Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site St. Francisville CEM St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 New Orleans CEM St. Roch Cemetery New Orleans TUR US Ghost Adventures Baton Rouge Baton Rouge MUS USS Kidd Veterans Museum Baton Rouge
Southeast
20 stops TUR American Ghost Walks — New Orleans New Orleans BAR Arnaud's Restaurant New Orleans Fam MUS Beauregard-Keyes House New Orleans BAR Brennan's Restaurant New Orleans INN Dauphine Orleans Hotel New Orleans HSE Faulkner House Books New Orleans Fam TUR French Quarter Phantoms New Orleans TUR Ghost City Tours — New Orleans New Orleans INN Hotel Monteleone New Orleans Fam INN Hotel Provincial New Orleans INN Hotel Villa Convento New Orleans CEM Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 New Orleans Fam BAR Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop New Orleans OTH Louisiana State University — Pleasant Hall Baton Rouge OTH LSU Evangeline Hall Baton Rouge Fam OUT Manchac Swamp LaPlace Fam OTH Old Ursuline Convent New Orleans INN Place d'Armes Hotel New Orleans OTH St. Louis Cathedral New Orleans Fam BAR The Old Absinthe House New Orleans
Central
15 stops OUT Afton Villa Gardens St. Francisville Fam OTH Alexandria Zoological Park Alexandria Fam MUS Elizabeth Town Hall (Former Industrial Lumber Hospital) Elizabeth Fam CEM Grace Episcopal Church and Cemetery St. Francisville Fam INN Hotel Bentley Alexandria MUS Keatchi Women's College Keatchie HSE Myrtles Plantation St. Francisville MUS Opelousas Museum and Interpretive Center Opelousas Fam CEM Rapides Cemetery Pineville PRS Red Hat Cell Block, Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) Angola CRM Sandbar Fight Site & Marker (Vidalia) Vidalia Fam CRM St. Landry Parish Courthouse Opelousas Fam CEM St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church St. Martinville Fam BAR Steamboat Warehouse Restaurant Washington Fam BAR The Diamond Grill Alexandria Fam
New Orleans Metro
11 stops MIL Chalmette Battlefield Chalmette Fam MUS Hermann-Grima House New Orleans Fam INN Hotel Le Richelieu New Orleans Fam INN Hotel Saint Vincent New Orleans MUS Old US Mint (New Orleans Jazz Museum) New Orleans Fam OTH Our Lady of Guadalupe Church (Old Mortuary Chapel) New Orleans Fam CEM St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 New Orleans INN The Andrew Jackson Hotel New Orleans INN The Columns Hotel New Orleans OTH The Morgue Bar and Lounge (Former) New Orleans TUR US Ghost Adventures New Orleans New Orleans
North
9 stops CEM American Cemetery Natchitoches MUS Biomedical Engineering Building (CREST Building) Ruston CRM Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum Gibsland CRM Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Site (Highway 154) Gibsland Fam THT Dixie Center for the Arts Ruston Fam HSE Layton Castle Monroe Fam THT Louisiana Tech University — Howard Auditorium Ruston Fam MIL Mansfield State Historic Site (Battle of Mansfield) Mansfield MUS Masur Museum of Art Monroe Fam
Southwest
7 stops THT ACTS Theatre Lake Charles Fam PRS Beauregard Parish Gothic Jail DeRidder CEM Big Woods Cemetery Edgerly CRM Calcasieu Parish Courthouse Lake Charles MUS Imperial Calcasieu Museum — Haunted Histories Exhibit Lake Charles CEM Miller Cemetery (Headless Cemetery) Eunice THT Rosa Hart Theatre Lake Charles Fam
Northwest
7 stops OTH Caddo Parish Courthouse Shreveport Fam PRS Caddo Parish Penal Farm (The Pea Farm) Shreveport HSE Logan Mansion Shreveport Fam CEM Oakland Cemetery Shreveport Fam HSE Ogilvie-Wiener Mansion Shreveport Fam THT Shreveport Municipal Auditorium Shreveport Fam MUS Spring Street Historical Museum Shreveport Fam
New Orleans
5 stopsAcadiana
4 stopsEvery entry links to its full HauntBound page with sources, accessibility notes, and family ratings.