The Atchafalaya Basin (pronounced "Chaff-Uh-Lie-Uh — the "A" is silent) is America's largest swamp, covering almost 1 million acres of wetlands located roughly between Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

Additionally, the surrounding lowlands make up the largest river floodplain swamp in North America, covering nearly a million acres. The Atchafalaya Basin is renowned for its natural beauty and ...

Sandra Thompson, who heads up the state’s Atchafalaya Basin Program, says the swamp would be lost otherwise. “If we don’t move the sediment out,” she says, “it will eventually fill the ...

In the Atchafalaya Basin—the largest river swamp in the U.S.—ancient cypress trees act as natural barriers against hurricanes and extreme weather. Spanning a million acres, these nearly ...

It spans approximately 1,200 miles, stretching from Florida to Texas, and is home to the largest swamp in America, the Atchafalaya River Basin. Atchafalaya covers more than a million acres of ...

The swamp airboat skimmed across the beer-bottle waters of the Atchafalaya Basin in a putt-putting bluster of noise. The vast wetland east of Lafayette mirrored the large Louisiana sky ...