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Bayou Teche Byway LOOK FOR THESE SIGNS 10 LIVINGSTO 31 12 ALONG THIS 740 ST. LANDRY PARISH Rosedale WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH 1 Grand Coteau Baton Rouge BYWAY a Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge 93 Grosse Tete Brusly BAYOU Sunset Arnaudville 10 EAST BATON 31 686 Miles 347 Addis ROUGE PARISH TECHE 0 1.25 2.5 5 7.5 49 341 Cecilia 678 1 inch equals approximately 4.9 miles BYWAY 347 Cankton Henderson See reverse side for detailed 328 information about stops PARISH 31 349 along this byway. b 347 352 Butte La Rose Plaquemine Breaux Bridge LEGEND North 94 c 1 Informational Kiosks 3039 a A IBERVILLE PARISH Points of Interest t Scott 347 c h Legend a State Historic Sites Catahoula f a 31 la Lafayette d y Local Tourist Information Centers a Bayou Teche Byway Parks 352 R iv State Welcome Centers e LAFAYETTE 96 r The Bayou Teche Byway follows closely along the 90 31 PARISH Cities and Communities on Primary Attractions banks of the region’s most popular waterway and Broussard 347 ST. MARTIN PARISH or near Byways White Castle national paddle trail, Bayou Teche. This picturesque 353 e State Parks State Park 679 route provides a firsthand glimpse of authentic Water Bodies, Rivers and Bayous 96 f Cajun culture. Rural landscapes lead visitors to Coteau Holmes State Highways Connected friendly communities filled with historic sites, local St. Martinville with Byways 92 Donaldsonville 345 Interstate Highways craftsmen and some of the best Cajun cooking from Youngsville 347 small town eateries. Thousands of years ago, the 345 31 U.S. Highways 680 3242 present course of the Bayou Teche was the main LAKE FAUSSE Urbanized Areas channel of the Mississippi River, so you’ll also get Loreauville POINTE 182 Parish Line a unique geological perspective of how the rich 86 344 agricultural lands on this route were formed. u h a yo Tec IBERIA PARISH New Iberia he Miles 0 1.25 2.5 57.5 Explore places like Breaux Bridge, the Crawfish 675 JeJJefferson 320 1 inch equals approximately 4.9 miles Capital of the World, Avery Island, where j Island 14 TABASCO® sauce is bottled, or Morgan City, 87 329 182 ASSUMPTION home of the annual Shrimp and Petroleum Festival Abbeville Delcambre PARISH Erath where food and industry come together in one 90 674 uniquely Louisiana celebration. The Bayou Teche k Lydia l VERMILION JeaneretteJ Byway connects the lifestyles of the past and PARISH Avery m present to offer visitors a chance to experience the Island Sorrel 668 Charenton cuisine, customs and communities that have come 182 87 318 Chitamacha Indian to define Louisiana culture. Reservation 326 In addition to the following points of interest, 83 visitors will also experience historic sites, beautiful Baldwin 182 nature preserves, museums, eateries, and n FranklinF accommodations along the 184-mile route. ST. MARY PARISH Centerville LouisianaByways.com CYPREMORT Garden 317 182 POINT 319 City Morgan 182 LAFOURCH Bayou 182 r p q 1: WC-146 2: LA 182 3: NW Vista 4: 03-WC-S-M4-6 (End) o 1: WC-147 2: LA 182 3: SE Patterson Berwick TERREBONNE4: 02-WC-S-M4-14 (Beg 90 2018 MORE INFORMATION DRIVING TIPS: Here’s a sampling of the many attractions throughout Call or visit the welcome centers or CVB visitor Don’t litter — keep Louisiana’s Byways clean information areas listed, and find us online at Note: some attractions do not have pull-offs the Bayou Teche Byway. Let your stories begin here. LouisianaByways.com. or have narrow shoulders along the roadway. e LONGFELLOW-EVANGELINE STATE HISTORIC SITE The k AVERY ISLAND EXPERIENCE Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site spans 157 acres, Here, you can see where and the Park interprets the history of the French-speaking peoples TABASCO® brand pepper sauce is of Louisiana. The visitor may see livestock, crops, kitchen and herb made, enjoy short films on TABASCO® gardens, living history and interpretive programs, the Visitor Center, history and take a self-guided tour of the a THE TOWN OF a picnic pavilion, and an outdoor classroom. pepper sauce making process. Stop by ARNAUDVILLE 1200 North Main Street, St. Martinville, LA 70582 the Visitor Center and Museum, eat at The Town of 337-394-3754, crt.state.la.us/louisiana-state-parks/ Restaurant 1868 and shop at the Country Store. The Jungle Gardens of Avery Arnaudville is named historic-sites/longfellow-evangeline-state-historic-site 4 after Jacques Arnaud Island encompass 170 acres of native and 1 exotic plant species where you can see from Jausiers, f ST. MARTINVILLE NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT 5 France, who first The St. Martinville National Historic District is notable for azaleas, camellias, Egyptian papyrus, live oaks, irises, settled here with his family at the its contributions to architecture, commerce and exploration/ wisteria and towering bamboo. The Gardens also have a bird junction of Bayou Teche and settlement. The two major elements in the district are the refuge and a variety of wildlife such as alligators, deer, q INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM Bayou Fuselier. The family church square and the surrounding historic commercial- muskrats, egrets, bears and more. MUSEUM AND EXPOSITION Home of donated a large amount of land to residential sector. LA 329, Avery Island, LA 70513, “Mr. Charlie,” an authentic offshore drilling rig the town to make a church that St. Martinville, LA 70582, 337-394-2233, 337-373-6129, tabasco.com built in 1952 and open to the public for tours. still exists today. 2 stmartinville.org/ourhistory.html “Mr. Charlie,” designed by industry pioneer A.J. 107 Rue De Jausiers, Arnaudville, l JEANERETTE MUSEUM The Jeanerette Museum “Doc” LaBorde, was the first transportable, LA 70512, 337-754-5911 g BAYOU TECHE MUSEUM The Bayou Teche Museum is a preserves the history of life on the Bayou Teche. The submersible drilling rig in the industry and was museum offers a video presentation on the planting, harvesting stmartinparishclerkofcourt.com/ state-of-the-art museum housing artifacts and memorabilia used to drill hundreds of offshore wells. The telling the story of a growing city, its people, culture, and industry, all and processing of the 200-year-old sugar industry, complete museum also includes interpretive exhibits, townofarnaudville.htm 6 centered around the “snake-like” curves of the Bayou Teche. with an outdoor sugar cane patch. artifacts, photographs and documents about b THE BREAUX BRIDGE NATIONAL 131 East Main Street, New Iberia, LA 70560, 500 East Main Street, Jeanerette, LA 70544, Louisiana’s offshore petroleum industry. “Mr. HISTORIC DISTRICT 337-606-5977, bayoutechemuseum.org 337-276-4408, jeanerettemuseum.com Charlie” is the only place in the world where The Breaux Bridge National Historic the public can walk aboard an authentic offshore oil rig. District is a community filled with pride in h SHADOWS-ON-THE-TECHE Shadows-on-the-Teche was m CHITIMACHA MUSEUM At the Chitimacha Museum in 111 First Street, Morgan City, LA 70380, their heritage. The bridge is one of the designated a National Historic Landmark and is one of 28 Charenton, take a trip back in time through the history of the 985-384-3744, rigmuseum.com highlights of the town. Breaux Bridge historic house museums nationwide, and the only one in Louisiana Chitimacha Indian Tribe by viewing artifacts and brief videos. remains a bilingual community, proud of maintained by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 3289 Cvhitimacha Trail, Charenton, LA 70523, 337-923-4830, r CAJUN COAST WELCOME CENTER Cajun Coast Welcome the town’s Cajun French ancestry. Furnishings, artifacts, and documents offer a vivid picture of chitimacha.gov/attractions-accommodations/museum Center in Morgan City is the perfect place to start your 314 East Bridge Street, domestic life on a south Louisiana plantation. Louisiana adventure in St. Mary Parish. It’s a sampler of Breaux Bridge, LA 70517, 337-332-8500, 320 East Main Street, New Iberia, LA 70560, n FRANKLIN HISTORIC DISTRICT The Franklin Historic District everything Louisiana offers, in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere 3 contains nearly 420 noteworthy structures and was listed in the that’s the heart of Cajun hospitality. breauxbridgla.net/visitors-center 337-369-6446, shadowsontheteche.org National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1982. 900 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, Morgan City, LA 70380, c BAYOU TECHE NATIONAL i KONRIKO® COMPANY STORE/CONRAD RICE MILL The 300 Iberia Street, Franklin, LA 70538, 337-828-3631, 985-380-8224, cajuncoast.com PADDLE TRAIL Louisiana’s only nationally-designated Water KONRIKO® Company Store/Conrad Rice Mill is the oldest rice franklin-la.com/recreation-historicdistrict.php Trail, the Bayou Teche Paddle Trail meanders for 135 miles right along mill still in operation in the U.S. and was founded in 1914 by P.A. the Byway. Numerous canoe launch points are conveniently located in Conrad. Mill tours and company store Mon-Sat. o WEDELL-WILLIAMS AVIATION & CYPRESS SAWMILL TOURIST INFORMATION CENTERS: 14 towns that the Paddle Trail and the Byway pass through. 309 Ann Street, New Iberia, LA 70560, 337-367-6163, conradrice.com MUSEUM The Wedell-Williams Aviation & Cypress Sawmill ATCHAFALAYA STATE IBERIA PARISH VISITOR WELCOME CENTER INFORMATION CENTER St. Martin, Iberia, and St. Mary Parishes, Museum (A Louisiana State Museum) serves a dual function - the first highlights the legacy of Louisiana aviation pioneers who formed an air 1908 Atchafalaya River Hwy., Breaux Bridge 2513 Hwy. 14, New Iberia 337-277-5292, techeproject.org j JEFFERSON ISLAND RIP VAN WINKLE GARDENS 337-228-1094, crt.state.la.us/tourism/ 888-9-IBERIA, iberiatravel.com Rip Van Winkle Gardens of Jefferson Island The gardens sit atop service together in 1928 in Patterson, Louisiana. The Sawmill Museum welcome-centers/Atchafalaya documents the history of the cypress lumber industry in Louisiana.
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