Southern Lousiana (along Route 90)
In late March, we are headed from Surfside Beach, TX to Biloxi, MS, but we have like a week to make the trip. Our plan is I-10 to Rt. 90 through Southern Louisiana. I lived in New Orleans for 3 year...
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First be aware that industry is booming (well sort of) in SW Louisiana (mostly Lake Charles, West Lake, Sulphur, ..) so most of the camp grounds in the area are full of contract workers. Therefore I would suggest spending time in the New Iberia areas, perhaps Rip Van Winkle Gardens at Jefferson Island, Avery Island, If you like regional home cooked food I would suggest Palmetto Island State park (it is a fairly new small state park) if you can get there on a on the right Saturday once per month the local dutch oven cooking club does a cooking demonstration with samples (more like pot luck lunch) donations accepted, and raffle tickets are also sold. A quick check of their facebook page says the next event is Oct 14th. We were there last Feb and they had about 50 dutch ovens worth of mostly cajun food, or at least cajun influenced food, plus gumbo and dirty rice. If you do go there approach from the east or north east the roads coming in from the west are very rough (shakes things loose like headlights, rough).
If you happen to be hungry when passing through Sulphur I would suggest trying Holier's good cajun food at a fair price, the buffer is of, but best stuff is ordered off the menu. They have 2 locations, with reasonable chance to have room to park RV's at either one, the original location on Ruth St, has a gravel parking lot next door that you may find room in, the new location on City Services Hwy is in front of an old K-Mart store that has since been converted to mini storage. Both location are just a block or two north of I-10, so should be right off your route. Once you get down south of Lafayette finding good places to get cajun food gets a lot easier, just one that comes to mind is Landry's Cajun Seafood in New Iberia (no relation to the fake cajun national chain) unfortunately their parking lot is not RV friendly due to overhanging limbs at the entrance.
If you happen to be hungry when passing through Sulphur I would suggest trying Holier's good cajun food at a fair price, the buffer is of, but best stuff is ordered off the menu. They have 2 locations, with reasonable chance to have room to park RV's at either one, the original location on Ruth St, has a gravel parking lot next door that you may find room in, the new location on City Services Hwy is in front of an old K-Mart store that has since been converted to mini storage. Both location are just a block or two north of I-10, so should be right off your route. Once you get down south of Lafayette finding good places to get cajun food gets a lot easier, just one that comes to mind is Landry's Cajun Seafood in New Iberia (no relation to the fake cajun national chain) unfortunately their parking lot is not RV friendly due to overhanging limbs at the entrance.
