Great Baton Rouge Apartments for Rent

Moving to an apartment in Baton Rouge? Lucky you! Baton Rouge is full of local flavor, not only in the delicious Cajun food, but in the geography, traditions and history of the area.

Living in a Baton Rouge apartment, you?ll be in the largest city near the Cajun country. That means you?ll be surrounded by incredibly flavorful Cajun and Louisiana Creole food. If you?re not from Louisiana, you may not know the difference between the two, as many people get them confused. Creole dishes are usually more continental and made with local seafood and produce. Cajuns made their dishes primarily with wild game, rice and whatever local ingredients were cheap and easiest to find. That?s why crawfish was such a popular ingredient. They could be found in mass quantities in nearby bayous and swamps. Cajun dishes also tend to be more rustic and seasoned, and often spicier, than Louisiana Creole dishes. Probably the best way to find the best Cajun and Louisiana Creole restaurants near your Baton Rouge apartment is to ask some of the locals.

Louisianans are extremely proud of their land and their heritage, and when you move to your new Baton Rouge apartment, you?ll soon see that for yourself. Local pastimes and tourist attractions (that residents also enjoy) play a huge part in celebrating and honoring the bayou and Louisianans of the past. Bayou and swamp tours are popular and abundant in the area and allow passengers to tour canals and swampy lakes with old cypress trees, wildlife (such as alligators, birds, turtles, egrets and nutria), semi-tropical villages and more.

Even if you opt for the most luxurious, spacious apartment in Baton Rouge, it will seem tiny to you after a visit to one of the many historic plantations in and around Baton Rouge. One particularly interesting plantation is the Frogmore Plantation and Gins, an 1800-acre historical working cotton plantation. Get a taste of how life was for slaves and sharecroppers as you tour the slave quarters, outbuildings and antiques, and then check out the modern-day cotton farm and the hi-tech cotton gin. Explore one of the largest plantation homes in the south ? Nottoway Plantation. Or, if you are a new resident of baton Rouge apartments, tour the Mount Hope Plantation, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and dates back to around 1790, to learn more about your new city.

Louisiana State University is located in Baton Rouge, and it?s a big deal to the people and the economy of Louisiana. The LSU Football Team provides entertainment for thousands of devoted fans, and the university brings in outside research grants and contracts totaling more than $120 million annually.

Whether you?re in search of fun, food or football, you won?t be disappointed in this bayou city. Find a Baton Rouge apartment today on ApartmentGuide.com.