Holiday Inn & Suites SLIDELL LOCAL AREA

Cajun Encounters is a local family owned and tour company dedicated to giving visitors an authentic experience of Louisiana history, culture, and wildlife. We offer the best views and excursions New Orleans has to offer, through city bus tours, plantation tours, and swamp tours. All of the tours are led by local, licensed guides and boat captains who are passionate about sharing their love of Louisiana. Check out our hotel swamp tour package fun for your entire family!

For those looking to capture incredible pictures of Slidell’s natural flora and fauna, then you need to race on towards the Honey Island Swamp Tours company for the perfect chance to see some amazing animals in their natural swamp environment, like alligators, egrets, and otters. Both a nature and history tour, these two-hour boat rides will introduce you and your family to an unbelievable environment that plays a vital role in the broader Louisiana ecosystem. Come for fun and leave happy.

Experience watery joy and fishing fun at the Fishing Pier — also known as the St. Tammany Parish Fishing Pier — in Slidell, LA. Anyone with a fishing license or access to one of the many fishermen who, for a fee, are happy to take you out on a fishing trip, will be immersed in a beautiful and bountiful area worth exploring. Fish to be caught in these waters include some local favorites, such as redfish, spotted trout, sheepshead, flounder, drum, Atlantic croaker, and the ever-popular blue crab.

Looking for a golf course near the hotel? Well you’re in luck, with the Oak Harbor Golf Club being a less than 10 minute car ride away. This 18-hole, par 72 championship golf course layout designed by the famous golf course architect, Lee Schmidt, features water hazards, sand traps, and lots of challenging layout obstacles for both experienced and veteran golfers. In addition to the green, the Oak Harbor Golf Club also provides a clubhouse with food and drink services for after you play a game.

Get your bug spray and your sun tan lotion ready when you spend the day at the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, a gorgeous nature park that’s perfect for hiking, camping, photography, canoeing, hunting, and more. Composed of vast bottomland forests filled with mixed hardwood and bald cypress trees, this impressive green space is home to a variety of wildlife worth sightseeing, such as the white-tailed deer, squirrel, rabbits, waterfowl, and various bird species like bald eagles too.

A beloved oddity in Abita Springs, the Abita Mystery House invites visitors into a maze of folk art, humor, and more than 50,000 recycled and found objects. Artist John Preble transforms a vintage gas station and adjoining buildings into a playful world of dioramas, strange critters, retro gadgets, and Southern quirks. Featured on American Pickers, this roadside stop is equal parts museum, funhouse, and creative fever dream.