Baton Rouge: Events, Food, Attractions

Welcome to Baton Rouge!

If you are looking for an amazing restaurant, local attraction, or anything and everything else Baton Rouge has to offer, www.visitbatonrouge.com is going to be your most helpful and informative tool. However, here are some links to the pages we think will be most helpful to the USATF Masters Indoor Championships 2020.

Here are some big events happening the weekend of March 12-15 in Baton Rouge!

• Saturday, March 14, 2020 - Wearin’ of the Green St. Patrick’s Day Parade
• Saturday, March 14, 2020 – Spring Green at the Zoo
• Saturday, March 14 – Harlem Globetrotters

Food

• Dining attractions near LSU
• Local Classics 
• Cajun & Creole Cuisine
• Crawfish Season

Highlighted LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

For a more detailed, comprehensive list, please visit www.visitbatonrouge.com.

The Baton Rouge area boasts activities and fun for all ages. Whether you are looking to indulge in our world famous local cuisine, explore historic landmarks and buildings, visit beautiful museums, or spend the day in our terrific regional shopping areas, there’s no shortage of things to do in the greater Baton Rouge area.

• Louisiana Arts and Science Museum & Planetarium (Downtown Baton Rouge): Educational entertainment for visitors of all ages, including art galleries, interactive art and science galleries designed just for children, and the Irene W. Pennington Planetarium features sky shows, large-format films, visual music shows, and galleries devoted to space science.
• Louisiana State Capitol (Downtown Baton Rouge): Tallest state capitol in the country.
• Capitol Park Museum – a Louisiana State Museum (Downtown Baton Rouge): Baton Rouge’s largest and newest museum has something for all ages.
• Louisiana’s Old State Capitol (Downtown Baton Rouge): Gothic castle architecture overlooking the Mississippi River.
• Mall of Louisiana: Louisiana’s largest mall features an open air shopping area known as the Boulevard; 1.5 million square feet and 178 stores.
• Mississippi River Casinos
• Belle of Baton Rouge (Downtown Baton Rouge)
• Hollywood Casino (Downtown Baton Rouge)
• L’Auberge Casino & Hotel (Southeast Baton Rouge)
• Cajun Pride Swamp Tours (LaPlace): Exciting, authentic eco-tour experience between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
• Perkins Rowe (Bluebonnet Corridor): One of the South’s most sophisticated and innovative mixed use developments featuring over 50 boutiques, stores, restaurants, and a movie theatre.
• Shaw Center for the Arts (Downtown Baton Rouge): Contemporary visual and performing arts facility featuring the LSU Museum of Art, Manship Theatre, LSU School of Art Glassel Gallery.
• Towne Center (Corporate Blvd.): Open-air lifestyle center featuring sidewalks to stroll, food to enjoy and elegant stores to shop.
• USS Kidd Veterans Memorial  & Museum (Downtown Baton Rouge): The USS Kidd is a meticulously restored historic landmark of a WWII Fletcher class destroyer.