Bayou Segnette State Park - Louisiana

Address:7777 Westbank Expressway
Westwego, Louisiana
Tel: (504) 736-7140

Located at the meeting point of two different ecosystems, swamp and marshland, this park is filled with both great recreational and learning opportunities. With all of the water, canoeing is a choice activity as is splashing around in the park's wave pool. When you're done, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for the nutria, opossums, raccoons, minks, and cardinals, all of which call Bayou Segnette home. Fishing is ample here and those who try to are likely to catch a catfish, trout, or redfish. This park also boasts great picnic grounds and playgrounds for kids and camping at 98 premium sites.

Bayou Segnette State Park offers the best of everything. Just a thirty-minute drive across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, a multitude of recreational opportunities awaits visitors of all ages--boating, fishing, canoeing, picnicking, playgrounds and, of course, swimming in the wave pool, as well as an ecosystem that offers you the chance to spot plants, trees and wildlife from both swamps and marshland. Both salt and freshwater fishing are available because of the park's unique location. From the boat launch, you may explore many areas not readily accessible by overland routes. Catches of bass, catfish, bream, perch, redfish and trout are common in the area. On land, picnic areas are available for the whole family, and the playgrounds will delight the children. Group shelters are a perfect spot for large groups to gather, and the park's group camp provides another option for big gatherings. After you have splashed the day away in Bayou Segnette's popular wave pool or skipped across any one of the adjacent waterways by boat, you will be glad you took the time to sit back and watch nature at play--for the wildlife is abundant and the vegetation worth closer study.