Bayou Weekly

In the far northeast corner of Louisiana, off Highway 577 in West Carroll Parish, a set of grassy ridges and mounds sits on the edge of Macon Ridge, overlooking Bayou Macon. From a pickup truck on the highway it can look like pasture. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America, and since 2014 it has shared a list with the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site is Poverty Point, named for a 19th-century

Most Louisianans have driven past Kisatchie National Forest without quite noticing it. It hides in plain sight along Interstate 49 and the two-lane highways of central and north Louisiana, broken into pieces by private land, and it is easy to mistake for one more stretch of timber country. Look closer and it is more than 600,000 acres of public land, and fall is a fine time to find that out. Kisatchie is Louisiana's only national forest, more than 604,000 acres spread across

There are bottles of Tabasco on diner counters in Shreveport, in soldiers' rations and on restaurant tables in countries most Louisianans will never visit. Every one of them traces back to a low hill rising out of the marsh in Iberia Parish, where the McIlhenny family has been making pepper sauce for more than 150 years and where visitors can still walk through the place it is made. Avery Island sits a few miles inland from Vermilion Bay, and it is an island mostly in the Lou