TABASCO® Sauce Factory, Jungle Gardens and its Bird City.
Nestled in the marshes of Southwest Louisiana, Avery Island is where Edmund McIlhenny invented a product and founded a company, in 1868. Today his century-old recipe is reproduced using virtually the same technique employed over 140 years ago.
Just a two-hour drive from New Orleans, Avery Island makes the perfect day trip for the whole family. Visit
the TABASCO® Country Store and Visitor Center (Now serving food), tour the TABASCO® Pepper Sauce Factory or stroll through Jungle Gardens, a 200-acre garden housing Bird City, a safe nesting place on Avery Island which helped save the Snowy Egret from extinction. There is something for everyone.
Address: La Hwy 329, Avery Island, LA 70513
Telephone: (800) 634-9599
Website: www.TABASCO.com
Hours: TABASCO® Pepper Sauce Factory tours: daily, 9am-4pm, except major holidays
Jungle Gardens tours: daily, 8am - 5pm.
Directions: West Bank: From New Orleans via I-10 West, use exit 103 (U.S. 90) and
follow it through Lafayette to New Iberia. At La 14, exit and turn left. From New
Orleans via US 90, head west through Morgan City to New Iberia. Exit right and
turn left onto LA 329.
