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template: byway.jade
id: "2066"
name: Bayou Teche Scenic Byway
distance: "125"
duration: "A self-guided tour could take a half day to two days."
description: "This byway follows the most famous bayou in Louisiana, running through a land that is rich in Cajun and Creole culture, covered with elegant moss-draped oaks, and dotted with Southern mansions."
contact: "**Cajun Coast Visitors and Convention Bureau**  \r\n 800-256-2931  \r\n\r\n"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.cajuncoast.com/"
    name: "Cajun Coast Visitors & Convention Bureau"
  - url: "http://www.cityofnewiberia.com/site301.php"
    name: "New Iberia - The Queen City of the Bayou Teche"
designations: 
  - Louisiana State Scenic Byway
states: 
  - LA
ll: 
  - -91.96758999957882
  - 30.546650000397165
bounds: 
  - - -92.00241900043648
    - 29.559361000409808
  - - -91.17003599976158
    - 30.546650000397165

---

Teche Country is off the beaten path and is a little wild with
its lush vegetation and hauntingly beautiful moss-draped oaks.
Following the scenic route that meanders alongside the Bayou Teche,
a stream that twists and turns for 125 miles through the
semi-tropical land of southern Louisiana, is a journey into the
geographical heart of Acadiana.

Once described as the "most richly storied of the interior
waters, and the most opulent," this body of water was the center of
a booming cypress industry in the early 1900s. The traveler can get
a firsthand glimpse of giant oaks with 150-foot reach, trailing
moss sometimes a yard below the branches, along the brown-watered
stream. The opulent Greek Revival mansions scattered here and there
along it appeared on the landscape as a result of the "sugar money"
derived from the area's most abundant crop, sugarcane. If the
traveler stops in the small villages and towns that have built up
along the bayou, she or he can hear the authentic and uncorrupted
dialect of the Acadian people.
