LA-23 runs out 75 miles south of New Orleans and dies at the water. Venice is the last inhabited community on the Mississippi River before the Gulf of Mexico. The road narrows, the river widens, and the land dissolves into marsh, channels, and the bird's-foot delta visible from the air. The landscape is more water than land.
This is where world-class deep-sea fishing launches. Tuna, marlin, wahoo, and yellowfin run from Venice Marina. Venice is also a major base for offshore oil rig service operations — the kind of work that happens where the continent ends and the Gulf begins.
Allow 90 minutes for the drive. The drive is the experience — watching solid ground give way to something that was never meant to hold a road.
- ·LA-23 ends here. Venice is the last inhabited community on the Mississippi River before the Gulf of Mexico.
- ·World-class deep-sea fishing: tuna, marlin, wahoo, and yellowfin launch from Venice Marina.
- ·The landscape is more water than land — marsh, channels, and the vast bird's-foot delta visible from the air.
- ·Venice is also a major base for offshore oil rig service operations.
- ·75 miles south of New Orleans. Allow 90 minutes for the drive.
- ·The road narrows, the river widens, and the land dissolves. The drive is the experience.
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