National Park Service LogoU.S. Department of the InteriorNational Park ServiceNational Park Service
National Park Service:  U.S. Department of the InteriorNational Park Service Arrowhead
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and PreserveDwarf palmettos grow among the trees in the Barataria Preserve.
view map
text size:largestlargernormal
printer friendly
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Boat Tours of Bayou Vermilion
Children and a park ranger wave from a traditional wooden boat during a bayou tour
Bon voyage! Explore Louisiana on a bayou boat trip with a National Park Service ranger

Cruise Bayou Vermilion in a traditional Louisiana boat and learn the history of Lafayette, Louisiana's "Cajun Capital." A National Park Service ranger will share stories of Indians, farmers, trappers, and traders as you watch for wildlife on the banks and relive another era in an old-fashioned bayou "schoolboat."

Tours are offered in the spring and fall. Tours leave the dock at the Vermilionville Heritage and Folklife Park of the Bayou Vermilion District (right next door to the Acadian Cultural Center). 

As of fall 2007, tickets prices are

  • for the boat tour only: $10 adults, $8 seniors 62 and older, $6 children 4-18, children 3 and under free
  • for the boat tour, a self-guided tour of Vermilionville Heritage and Folklife Park, and lunch at Vermilionville's restaurant: $24 adults, $22 seniors 62 and older, $16 children 4-18, children 3 and under free

Call Vermilionville at 337-233-4077 for reservations and more information.

 

 

Young armadillos at night.  

Did You Know?
Nine-banded armadillos always give birth to four identical young, the only mammal known to do so. They can also delay birth for up to two years after fertilization of the egg.

Last Updated: July 24, 2008 at 11:04 EST