
What’s a Festival Without Shrimp and Oil?
The 81st edition of the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival kicks off today with a ribbon cutting and carnival before getting into full swing this weekend. Want to know what to

The 81st edition of the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival kicks off today with a ribbon cutting and carnival before getting into full swing this weekend. Want to know what to

Crisp air, crunchy leaves tumbling to the ground and tons of festivals – It’s fall on the Cajun Coast, y’all.
The fun doesn’t stop. Here’s the festival lineup from September until the holidays<span style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height:

National Aviation Week is celebrated this year August 15-21. It’s always during week of Orville Wright’s birthday – August 19.
National Aviation Day is observed each year on August 19th. This day is dedicated by Presidential Proclamation to those who helped pioneer aviation in the United

The Cajun Coast is coordinating with Livingston Parish Tourism Assistant Director JT Taylor (whose father is a minister at Life Church in Walker) to get supplies to the 100-150 evacuees their church is housing. Additionally, the church is feeding about 200 people per day as flood victims in neighboring homes

Any chef worth his salt will tell you ingredients are best when they are fresh – and shrimp don’t get any fresher than when they’re bought straight from fishermen themselves at the dock.
Buyers visiting the boats docked on the Atchafalaya River in Morgan City and Berwick can buy by

The Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival is the state’s oldest chartered harvest festival, held every Labor Day weekend in Morgan City.
It’s been repeatedly hailed as a Top 20 event by Southeast Tourism Society and the Louisiana Office of Culture Recreation and Tourism as well as being awarded Most Outstanding

Sugar, spice and everything nice. Grand plantations and sprawling countryside. These are the diverse images evoked by a commodity that means $2.7 billion to the Louisiana economy.
Driving from one end of St. Mary Parish to the other, visitors can’t help but notice field after field of sugarcane, a grass-like

The Cajun Coast Visitors & Convention Bureau would like to welcome the players, coaches, family members and friends of the Dixie Youth 10- and 12-year-old South Regional Majors tournament and North Regional AAA tournament.
We will play host to 32 teams of Dixie Youth players (480 players and coaches) July

In the 19th century, Monday typically was laundry day. Without a washing machine, the lady of the house tended to every article of clothing by hand. That didn’t leave much time for cooking, so dinner had to be something that required

The Last Honky Tonk Music Series brings national acts to small communities across the country, creating a camaraderie between artists and music lovers.
The series is a volunteer network comprised of artists, venue owners, radio programmers, sponsors, music industry professionals and music lovers now headquartered in Morgan City, LA

Instagram poster @tltickets, whose real name is Tara Gauthreaux, has a feed full primarily of one gorgeous nature shot after another.
If she is a painter of sunrises, sunsets and gorgeous skyscapes, then Louisiana is her canvas.
This shot, captured in April, particularly captured our hearts because of its

Temperatures are soaring and the kids need something constructive to do now that they’re out of school. Grab a snoball, put your feet up and review these family-friendly activities on the Cajun Coast.
Swimming/ Splash/ Spray Parks/ Beaches
—Morgan City Public Pool, 611 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,

The 81st edition of the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival kicks off today with a ribbon cutting and carnival before getting into full swing this weekend. Want to know what to

Crisp air, crunchy leaves tumbling to the ground and tons of festivals – It’s fall on the Cajun Coast, y’all.
The fun doesn’t stop. Here’s the festival lineup from September until the holidays<span style="font-size: 13.008px; line-height:

National Aviation Week is celebrated this year August 15-21. It’s always during week of Orville Wright’s birthday – August 19.
National Aviation Day is observed each year on August 19th. This day is dedicated by Presidential Proclamation to those who helped pioneer aviation in the United

The Cajun Coast is coordinating with Livingston Parish Tourism Assistant Director JT Taylor (whose father is a minister at Life Church in Walker) to get supplies to the 100-150 evacuees their church is housing. Additionally, the church is feeding about 200 people per day as flood victims in neighboring homes

Any chef worth his salt will tell you ingredients are best when they are fresh – and shrimp don’t get any fresher than when they’re bought straight from fishermen themselves at the dock.
Buyers visiting the boats docked on the Atchafalaya River in Morgan City and Berwick can buy by

The Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival is the state’s oldest chartered harvest festival, held every Labor Day weekend in Morgan City.
It’s been repeatedly hailed as a Top 20 event by Southeast Tourism Society and the Louisiana Office of Culture Recreation and Tourism as well as being awarded Most Outstanding

Sugar, spice and everything nice. Grand plantations and sprawling countryside. These are the diverse images evoked by a commodity that means $2.7 billion to the Louisiana economy.
Driving from one end of St. Mary Parish to the other, visitors can’t help but notice field after field of sugarcane, a grass-like

The Cajun Coast Visitors & Convention Bureau would like to welcome the players, coaches, family members and friends of the Dixie Youth 10- and 12-year-old South Regional Majors tournament and North Regional AAA tournament.
We will play host to 32 teams of Dixie Youth players (480 players and coaches) July

In the 19th century, Monday typically was laundry day. Without a washing machine, the lady of the house tended to every article of clothing by hand. That didn’t leave much time for cooking, so dinner had to be something that required

The Last Honky Tonk Music Series brings national acts to small communities across the country, creating a camaraderie between artists and music lovers.
The series is a volunteer network comprised of artists, venue owners, radio programmers, sponsors, music industry professionals and music lovers now headquartered in Morgan City, LA

Instagram poster @tltickets, whose real name is Tara Gauthreaux, has a feed full primarily of one gorgeous nature shot after another.
If she is a painter of sunrises, sunsets and gorgeous skyscapes, then Louisiana is her canvas.
This shot, captured in April, particularly captured our hearts because of its

Temperatures are soaring and the kids need something constructive to do now that they’re out of school. Grab a snoball, put your feet up and review these family-friendly activities on the Cajun Coast.
Swimming/ Splash/ Spray Parks/ Beaches
—Morgan City Public Pool, 611 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,