Oak Alley Plantation. Vacherie, Louisiana.

TinyTinyTiny · 7 months

This is why I love living in Louisiana.

gl77 · 7 months

There's a show available right now on Netflix streaming called "America's Castles". Each episode talks in depth about 2 or 3 old mansions that are in the US. The first episode is about plantation mansions. This one is one of the plantations featured and they talk extensively about "Oak Alley". Very informative and interesting, especially for ents.

holley3020 · 7 months

I proposed to my wife at the end of the alley. Love this place.

ReverendGonzoLC · 7 months

Some friends of mine honeymooned there. Just one of the many beautiful places we have here in ole Louisiane!

Shitty_Watercolour · 7 months

http://imgur.com/1RFsh

ACrackHeadsOpinion · 7 months

reminds me of the shire

slam707 · 7 months

I visited there a few years ago on a road trip. Absolutely stunning scenery. I even bought a seedling to plant at my house. I have since moved. This means I need to re-visit and get one for my current house :)

Titanomachy · 7 months

Just looking at that is making my shirt stick to my skin.

Testaclese · 7 months

There's actually another place just like this around the St. Martinville/Catahoula area of Louisiana.

Rumor has it that about a hundred years ago, when the area was still in the middle of the sugar boom, the guy who owned the particular plantation planned one of the most kickass wedding presents of all time for his daughter; in the wee hours of the morning of the wedding (which of course would take place on the plantation grounds), the dude spent a butt-load of money importing silk spiders, then placing them all over the trunks of the tree row. When the sun rose, both rows of oaks (those are live oaks, by the way) had these massive spiderwebs arching from tree trunk to tree trunk, all the way down the line. What's more; the morning dew had carpeted itself along the spiderwebs, so when the sunlight hit the webbings, both rows of oak trees glittered in the light like living walls of spun-silver - and if you hadn't guessed it already, those rows would also serve as the path of the wedding processional, all the way up to the front of the house.

Now THAT is an awesome wedding present!!

Tee-Chou · 7 months

reminds me of a picture of the Horse Farm in Lafayette

sm_x · 7 months

reminds me of lord of the rings for some reason.

iloveoreos · 7 months

I'm going there next weekend for the crafts show! Yay!

kitten36 · 7 months

"Interview with the Vampire" filmed scenes there. So pretty

Iprefernottosay · 7 months

Vacherie = old french word for a place where the cows are kept. Cows= vache in french

jessiebullseye · 7 months

I just want to climb those trees.

sUPERbUTTEReXPRESS · 7 months

I love the south~

toouglyforretail · 7 months

Thank you to whoever planted these decades ago, knowing that only future generations would get to appreciate them. I hope I'm able to leave something even a fraction as beautiful.

jchas5 · 7 months

Tragic Beauty.

alexise53 · 7 months

I go to Spring Hill College in Mobile and it looks a lot like Oak Alley. One of our streets is called Avenue of the Oaks. It's not quite the same as Oak Alley but it is still beautiful. Apparently the "run forrest run" scene of Forrest Gump was filmed at my school (: or at least thats what I've heard.

koreanpopstarrain · 7 months

Forrest's house?

Glalie · 7 months

another reason why i love living in louisiana http://i.imgur.com/3PMcp.jpg

TigerlilySmith · 7 months

That place is beautiful. I was there with my class in high school. First time I had a mint julep (virgin though).

tcElectric · 7 months

This, plus the actual mansion, is one of the more beautiful sights I saw in Louisiana. Good memories, upvote given.

LazyCanadian · 7 months

I would go on the nicest fucking picnic there. God damn it would be pleasant.

redinzane · 7 months

Upvoted, because even though i'm from Germany i've stood in that exact same place. Lousiana is beautiful.

RoosterSheep · 7 months

I went to Oak Alley all the way from the UK last year and got pretty much the same photo, though yours is clearly better. I love these trees, it's a shame they wouldn't let me climb them!

zombieslaya1138 · 7 months

I've been there before, beautiful place. Great mint juleps, especially on a hot day.

Distilicious · 7 months

I miss home :(

Dr_koctaloctapuss · 7 months

I see this and think, we share 70% Dna with trees.

MagicalMudkips · 7 months

This is absolutely beautiful :D

[deleted] · 7 months

Someone else though of Forrest Gump?

theDudeRules · 7 months

Be-Ute-Tea-Full!

Sugreev2001 · 7 months

Run...Forrest...Run !!

killthetoy · 7 months

I see it hasn't ceased being beautiful since I visited. St. Joseph's Plantation down is road is also nice.

MayMayV · 7 months

Very nice to see others from Louisiana! I live about an hour away from New Orleans in a really small town. This is just one of the many reasons I do love being down here. The atmosphere is just lovely.

JFoggers · 7 months

Wow, a wave of trees...

newbodynewmind · 7 months

I think this is the plantation where Interview with a Vampire was filmed.

jammaloozer · 7 months

my favorite place to go. proud to be from Louisiana!

Unconfidence · 7 months

It's really funny that I see pictures like this on r/pics. When my friend from Maine came to visit she was constantly in awe of all the trees, especially the giant oaks we have here. I see areas like this every day. LSU Avenue in Baton Rouge is a quarter mile of road which has constant shade from the trees lining both sides. My grandmother's house on the Bayou Teche, where everything glows orange as the sun sets. Hell, just looking out over the Atchafalaya Basin and seeing water so grown with moss it looks like you could walk on it. All of these things, like pictures from a book. And they're just commonplace to me. I walk by them every day and pay them no mind.

So strange.

lilbttrflyangel · 7 months

During my senior year of high school, our choir trip was to Louisiana. Oak Alley plantation was one of our stops. We also got to tour the house. It was so awesome to hear the history and see it first hand. I also remember smelling the magnolia tree that's on the property. I would love to go back someday!!

Devidu · 7 months

Upvote cuz I live here

jaybomofo · 7 months

I just took a tour of this place yesterday. It was pretty incredible.

subyguy · 7 months

feel like this would be a great smoking spot.

TechnicalPony · 7 months

Man I miss this place, wish they dis more history in the tours though (they may, it's been years since Ive been to the south) :)

Loucke · 7 months

Wow, this makes me want to visit Louisiana so badly. Absolutely gorgeous.

dirtymoney · 7 months

Holy shit would I LOVE to metal detect that property!

Pricklepants · 7 months

IT'S SO FLUFFY

hellointernet81 · 7 months

WHEAR'S MAH SLAVE PROPERTAH

Grammar-Hitler · 7 months

I can hear foghorn leghorn in the distance.

7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80 · 7 months

Beautiful picture, but Rosedown is a much better plantation. ;)

Glalie · 7 months

yay im from louisiana

right2exist · 7 months

Slavery!

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