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Roughly bounded by North Boulevard, East Boulevard, Government Street, South 10th Street, South Boulevard, South River Road and Saint Louis Street 30°26′36″N 91°11′04″W / 30.44342°N 91.18451°W / 30.44342; -91.18451 ( Beauregard Town Historic
The Horace Wilkinson Bridge (locally known as the New Bridge) is a cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 10 in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Port Allen in West Baton Rouge Parish to Baton Rouge in East Baton Rouge Parish. Around the Baton Rouge metropolitan area, the bridge is more commonly known as the "New Bridge" because it is ...
Baton Rouge station is a historic train station located at 100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which got absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad. The station was a stop on the Y&MV main line between Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen, it is known locally in the Baton Rouge Area as "the old bridge". [3] It was the only bridge across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge from its opening until April 1968, when the Horace Wilkinson Bridge ("the new bridge") carrying Interstate 10 opened.
Just before a levee to the Mississippi River, the road comes to a T-intersection with LA 986 at its northern terminus. LA 415 makes a left onto the road paralleling the levee. [1] The road continues to parallel the levee through northern West Baton Rouge and eastern Pointe Coupee parishes passing multiple minor state highways along its route.
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.
US 61 north (Airline Highway) – Baton Rouge: Interchange; northern end of US 61 concurrency; northbound US 61 to northbound LA 73 and southbound LA 73 to southbound US 61 only: Westminster–Baton Rouge line: 19.4: 31.2: I-12 east – Hammond: Eastbound I-12 entrance only: 19.5: 31.4: LA 1068 north (Drusilla Drive) Southern terminus of LA ...
The highway resumes its regular course and, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) later, enters the small town of Abita Springs at an intersection with Harrison Avenue, a local road. [2] [3] [4] Signage on the eastbound I-12 ramp to LA 59 directs travelers confusing the route with I-59, located about 20 miles (32 km) farther east, to get back onto I-12 eastbound.