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BAYOU TECHE NATIONAL PADDLE TRAIL 

Iberia Parish, Louisiana

LOREAUVILLE TO JEANERETTE

Trail Highlights

This 135 miles trail, which is part of the National Park Service’s National Water Trails System, offers multiple access points from Port Barre to Calumet. The Iberia parish portion starts in Loreauville through New Iberia (9.5 miles) and ends in Jeanerette (11 miles) with five boat docks located along the way. The TECHE Project and the City of New Iberia recently installed a floating kayak dock and park off Duperier Avenue in New Iberia (pictured).

Bayou Teche is a slow-moving waterway near the Atchafalaya Basin that is great for paddling. Oak, cypress, magnolia and redbud trees line the banks, and you may spot bald eagles, turtles, snakes, alligators, egrets and nutria. The bayou winds through history, snaking around the original grounds of the native Chitimacha people, and the New Iberia National Register Historic District, home to the Conrad Rice Mill (America’s oldest operating rice mill), antebellum plantation Shadows-on-the-Teche, and the Bayou Teche and Jeanerette museums.

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1 Feb

Check out the Paddle the Gulf website for a new trail highlight! The Weedon Island Preserve South Paddling Trail meanders through mangroves and seagrass flats of Tampa Bay. https://paddlethegulf.org/basics/trail-highlights/

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10 Dec

It's time to highlight a new paddle trail! Check out the Back Bay Blueway at https://paddlethegulf.org/basics/trail-highlights/

Find a paddle trail near you using our interactive paddle map https://paddlethegulf.org/trail-map/

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10 Nov 2021

Paddle the Gulf has updated our map of paddle trails! We're nearing 150 paddle trails, https://paddlethegulf.org/trail-map/ Send us information to add your favorite trails, admin@paddlethegulf.org

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28 Jul 2021

Paddle the Gulf has a new trail highlighted, check it out! https://paddlethegulf.org/basics/trail-highlights/

Also look for new events on the calendar, https://paddlethegulf.org/calendar/

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19 May 2021

Check this out! New events have been added to our calendar, https://paddlethegulf.org/calendar/

Add your own event or your favorite trail. Submit requests through our website, https://paddlethegulf.org/

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