A photo of the Southern Pacific Railroad as it approaches the bridge it constructed to cross the Atchafalaya River. The railroad was preceded the U.S. 10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge as a direct route ...

Trestles rise from the swamp when the water is low, standing as monuments to an era when a railway was the only direct route from Baton Rouge to Lafayette. And back. This was long before ...

Southern Louisiana's Atchafalaya River Basin embodies the true essence of the Sportsman's Paradise nickname. Although the Atchafalaya River is relatively short as rivers go, stretching only 140 ...

His goal was to acclimate to the heat before moving to the Amazon, but he fell in love with the basin and stayed, ultimately finding work as a fisherman. Nearly 40 years later, he now runs Atchafalaya ...

(The Center Square) – Deployment of Atchafalaya Basin Bridge speed cameras has been stopped by the stroke of a pen. Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill into law this week shuttering the camera ...