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Bayou Segnette State Park is located in Westwego, Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.. Bayou Segnette is not far from the urban center of New Orleans, yet it features access to two types of wetlands, swamp and marsh.
Louisiana Highway 45 (LA 45) is a state highway located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.It runs 22.08 miles (35.53 km) in a north–south direction from a dead end at Bayou Barataria in Lafitte to a junction with LA 18 in Marrero.
LA 23 connects Gretna and Venice.Between Belle Chasse and Venice, the highway serves as the main road along the west bank of the Mississippi River.In Belle Chasse, the highway crosses the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway via two antiquated crossings: southbound traffic uses the 1955-vintage Belle Chasse Tunnel, a narrow crossing that does not allow passing; northbound traffic uses the 1967-vintage ...
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
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]
Louisiana Highway 319 (LA 319) is a 8-mile-long (13 km) state highway in rural St. Mary Parish. It provides the only road access to Cypremort Point from the mainland. Beginning at a private road in Cypremort Point, it heads northeast passing rows of houses affronting Vermilion Bay. The road crosses a small canal and parallels it for some distance.
Louisiana Highway 3011 (LA 3011) runs 1.50 miles (2.41 km) in a north–south direction along Grand Caillou Road in Dulac, Terrebonne Parish. [11] The route begins at a point where Grand Caillou Road transitions from parish to state maintenance and proceeds northeast along the east bank of Bayou Caillou.
Louisiana Highway 541 (LA 541) runs 9.72 miles (15.64 km) in a general east–west direction from LA 18 in Avondale to a second junction with LA 18 in Harvey, Jefferson Parish. [49] The route heads north on River Road from LA 18 through the community of Bridge City, where it begins to parallel the west bank levee of the Mississippi River.