The Gulf Coast Louisiana is Cajun Country. Take a swamp tour. Try some Cajun food. Attend a festival. Play the slots at a Casino. Visit a historical landmark, an antebellum house, museum or art gallery. Explore the universe at a planetarium. Take a factory tour of the makers of Tabasco sauce. View wildlife. Bird watch. Walk through beautiful gardens. Fish for tarpon, redfish, speckled trout .... Camp. Hike. Bike. Swim in the Gulf of Mexico. Play on the beach. Build sand castles. Have a picnic. Go boating, kayaking, canoeing ....
Grand Isle State Park is located on Grand Isle is located near Cut Off, Galliano, Houma and Thibodaux. Cut Off is 43 miles northwest of Grand Isle and Galliano is 35 miles northwest. Within the Grand Isle State Park, you will find beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. See the butterfly dome, a Mardi Gras parade and gardens. Have your wedding here. Attend a festival. You can camp, bird watch, go surf fishing, deep sea fishing, crabbing, boating .... There is a pier.
Holly Beach is near the Texas border. It is 36 miles south of Sulphur. Find lodging in Sulphur hotels.
Port Fourchon beaches
Local Attractions: Port Fourchon, Grand Isle State Park, Fishing Charters, Tideland Golf Course, Annual French Food and Seafood Festivals, Mardi Gras, Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo.
Companies in the Grand Isle area: shopping malls, major refineries and chemical plants, Edison Chouest Off Shore, Abdon Callais Off-Shore, Air Logistics, Danos and Curole, Grand Isle Shipyard Health Care, Lady of the Sea General Hospital and other businesses.
World Champion Crawfish Etoufee Cook-off
In the area, you will find Casinos, Old Plantations, the Bayou, Swamp tours, Charter fishing, festivals, Mardi Gras, Cajun food and Prime Hunting and Fishing.
In Houma, see Southdown Plantation, Cajun Water Tours, and Houma, Louisiana's Waterland USA.
At a glance
Highlights: Antique shops, Plantation tours, Swamp tours,, Casinos, Native American Pow Wow, hunting, fishing, Mardi Gras, races
Lafayette area attractions
Abbeville - The Depot at Magdalen Place
Breaux Bridge - Bayou Boudin & Cracklin Cafe
Broussard - Zoo of Acadiana
Church Point - historic sites
Crowley City Hall historic Ford Building, historic district, Rice Theatre, Crystal Rice3 Heritage Forum
Eunice - Cajun music show
Maurice - Vivian Alexander Gallery & Museum
Lafayette - Acadian Village, Vermilionville Cajun Creole heritage & folklife park, Alexander Mouton 1850 house, Atchafalaya swamp tours, Atchafalaya national heritage area, Cajun French Music Association, Cathedral of St. John of Evangelist, Lafayette Natural history museum & planetarium, Louisiana crafts guild Sans Souci Fine Crafts Gallery
Opelousas - museum and interpretive center
Scott - Floyd Sonnier's Beau Cajun Art Gallery
Shreveport - Louisiana North Coalition
St. Martinville - Acadian Memorial, Longfellow - Evangeline State historic site, the Petit Paris Museum, Lake Fausse Pointe State park
Ville Platte - Chicot State Park, Louisiana State Arboretum state Preservation Area
Lake Charles Area attractions
Lake Charles - Charpentier historic district, Mardi Gras Msueum of Imperial Calcasieu, L-Auberge du Lac Casino Resort, Sam Houston Jones State Park, VF factory outlet, Creole Nature Trail, Southland coins & collectibles
Jennings - W.H. Tupper Museum
Town Of Iowa - Factory outlet capital, Rabbit festival, Christmas parade
Kinder - Coushatta Casino Resort
Huntington - Brimstone Museum & Henning Cultural Center
Elton - Coushatta Indian Museum
New Iberia & Morgan City Area attractions
Cajun coast paddling trails, bird watching, Atchafalaya Basin
Annual festivals: Labor day: Shrimp & Petroleum festival, October: Harvest Moon festival, December: Christmas on the Cajun Coast, February: Mardi Gras on the Cajun Coast, April: Patterson Cypress Sawmill Festival, April: Bayou Teche Bear festival, July 4: Go Fourth.
Avery Island - Jungle Gardens & bird sanctuary, McIlhenny Co Tabasco factory
Cypremort Point - Cypreort Point State Park beach, sailing, fishing, cabins
Charenton - Cypress Bayou Casino
Franklin - Grevemberg House Museum, Oaklawn Manor 1837 house and gardens
Jeanerette Bicentennial Park & Museum
Morgan City - historic district
New Iberia - Bayou Teche Museum, historic district, Conrad Rice Mill, Rip Van Winkle gardens, Lake Peigneur, Shadows on the Teche
Patterson - Louisiana State Museum
Chamber of Commerce for Grand Isle Area
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