One day in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

A day through Baton Rouge’s best-known sights that lie close together: Louisiana State Capitol, Louisiana State Museum – Baton Rouge, St. Joseph Cathedral, Shaw Center for the Arts, LSU Museum of Art and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot. 6 stops, about 0.8 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Louisiana State CapitolSkyscraper · On the map
  2. Louisiana State Museum – Baton RougeMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Louisiana State Capitol · On the map
  3. St. Joseph CathedralCathedral · 0.1 mi on from Louisiana State Museum – Baton Rouge · On the map
  4. Shaw Center for the ArtsMuseum · 0.3 mi on from St. Joseph Cathedral · On the map
  5. LSU Museum of ArtMuseum · Next to Shaw Center for the Arts · On the map
  6. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company DepotMuseum · 0.1 mi on from LSU Museum of Art · On the map

6 stops, 1.3 mi on foot along the streets: about 24 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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