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Louisiana Is Full Of Stories. Yours Begins Here.
Meandering through Louisiana are 17 byways—each offering an authentic taste of Louisiana food, music,
culture and natural beauty like no other. Discover them by car, RV, motorcycle or bicycle year-round.
You’ll find a short description of each byway on the back of this sheet. For detailed maps and specific
information about the history, sites and attractions along each
byway, visit LouisianaByways.com.
2. Boom or Bust Byway (136 miles)
Keep your camera handy to snap the landmarks and icons that
reflect fortunes made or lost in oil, lumber, farming and music in
this land of rolling hills, tall pines, and beautiful lakes and bayous.
3. Cajun Corridor (33 miles)
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River National Heritage Trail (35 miles)
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Bust
Byway
(136 miles)
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Creole
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Trail All-American Road (180 miles)
3. Cajun Corridor
(33 miles)
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9. Louisiana Colonial Trails Byway (567 miles)
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3. Cajun Corridor (33 miles)
Treat your taste buds! Sample fresh shrimp, crawfish, oysters or
the spicy local sausage known as boudin. You’ll find it all along
this route through South Louisiana’s rice and sugar cane fields
and
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Byway (178
miles)
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Trail All-American
Road
(180 miles)
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through
pine forests and
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blackberry farms during a tour based on true stories, tall tales
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of
their
society
at
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Point,
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westward
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centuries
ago.
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Byway
(78 miles)
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(20Penitentiary
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Longleaf
Trail
Byway
(17
miles)
The
home
of
Louisiana
State
Penitentiary
may seem
odd place
to begin a journey, but Angola is a community
with an
a colorful
past.
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views
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route
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historic
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National
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where
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town, then
take
a short
scenic landscape
drive to historic
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Francisville.
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mesas, abundant wildlife and many chances to spot
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Southern Swamps (67 miles)
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tugboats
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Great River
National
Byway
(717 andand
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for
lunch
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Byway
(231miles)
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(231
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musicspots,
spots,
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crawfish
farms,
sweet
potato
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music
along with
crawfish
farms,
sweet
potato
fields and the
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favorite
festivals.
Stop
festivals.
Stop
for lunch!
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