The Wetlands Cultural Byway traverses more than 280 miles of southern Louisiana, crisscrossing a landscape of small towns, open bayou country, and wild Gulf coastline. It follows state highways along both banks of Bayou Lafourche through Lafourche Parish, along Bayou Terrebonne, and south along Bayou Petit Caillou and Bayou Grand Caillou to Cocodrie and the Gulf. Houma sits at its center. Drive any segment and you're in a Louisiana that doesn't market itself — communities where shrimping and trapping are still occupations, where the church steeple is the tallest thing for miles, and where the road occasionally ends at water with no warning. This is the frame that connects every other entry in this build.
- ·The Wetlands Cultural Byway traverses more than 280 miles of southern Louisiana through small towns, open bayou country, and wild Gulf coastline.
- ·Follows state highways along both banks of Bayou Lafourche, Bayou Terrebonne, and south to Cocodrie and the Gulf.
- ·Houma sits at the center of the byway.
- ·Drive any segment and you're in a Louisiana that doesn't market itself — communities where shrimping and trapping are still occupations.
- ·The road occasionally ends at water with no warning.
- ·This is the connective frame for every other entry in the Terrebonne build.
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