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River Road in Louisiana is the most well-known segment of the Great River Road in the United States. It runs for about 70 miles (110 km) from Baton Rouge to New Orleans through the River Parishes, on both sides of the Mississippi River. Dotted on each side of the river are antebellum plantation houses. Today, there are also dozens of industrial ...
Louisiana Highway 18 ( LA 18) is a state highway that serves Ascension, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Jefferson Parishes. Called the Great River Road, it runs from west to east, parallel to the west bank of the Mississippi River, running from Donaldsonville to Gretna. It spans a total of 79.7 miles (128.3 km). [1]
State highway markers for different years: 1955 (left), 1990 (center), 2008–present (right) System information Length 16,698.41 mi (26,873.49 km) Formed 1955 renumbering Notes Since 2008, La DOTD has been replacing the green-and-white state highway markers with a black-and-white version using the same design. The new shields have a black background, white silhouette, black letters and ...
Great River Road Route information Length 2,069.0 mi (3,329.7 km) Location Country United States States Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana Highway system Scenic Byways National National Forest BLM NPS The distinctive route marker displayed along the entire 10-state routing of the Great River Road The Great River Road is a ...
River Road African American Museum. Coordinates: 30°6′4.9″N 90°59′24.4″W. River Road African American Museum is a museum of culture and history in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, United States. Founded in 1994, it was among the first Louisiana museums to tell the story of Africans and African Americans, both slave and free.
Louisiana Highway 408 ( LA 408) runs 12.28 miles (19.76 km) in an east–west direction from a local road in Baton Rouge to a junction with the concurrent LA 37 / LA 64 in Central, East Baton Rouge Parish. The route connects northern Baton Rouge with Greenwell Springs, a rural community within the Central city limits.
LA 640 heads north from LA 3127 near West St. John High School. It intersects LA 18 (River Road) near the St. John the Baptist Parish Courthouse, and had run 0.3 mi west along LA 18 to a ferry road. Until 2013, it crossed the river via the Edgard-Reserve Ferry. LA 640 had ended at the east bank river road (LA 44) at an intersection with LA 53.
Interstate. US. State. Scenic. ← LA 72. → LA 74. Louisiana Highway 73 (LA 73) is a state highway in Louisiana stretching from Geismar to Baton Rouge. LA 73 was built as a bypass to the backbends of River Road. It was soon after bypassed itself in a more complete way with U.S. Route 61 (Airline Highway). [citation needed]