re: Where is the remotest area in Louisiana?

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Hop in the boat an run 100 miles south of Venice, kill the engines and toss the electronics, doesn't feel much more remote than that......

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So the middle of the gulf pretty sure that's not louisiana sweetcheeks

I know that my answer isn't the right one, but one day, when youre playing around on google earth, look at that swamp behind river forest subdivision in Laplace (google Somerset st in Laplace). It's essentially the swamp between airline and lake p, between Laplace and kennuh (brah).

Most of the human traffic in that swamp obviously comes off of airline, so, when we were kids, we were entering the swamp at the back of the neighborhood, about 3 miles from airline. We'd hunt back toward the lake / spillway.

I was convinced I was walking in areas no man had never seen. While I know that's not the case, seriously, look at it on google earth. It's a BIG area w/very few roads. A time or two, we packed in as far as we could go, set up camp, and hunted the next day.

Many, many of the following were felled to budding 13 year old woodsmen back then:

Fox squirrels
Cat squirrels
Wood ducks
Big ducks (prolly 4 to 1 Woodrow's though).
Woodcocks
Crawfish
Frogs
Alligators (not many, but one or two)
One deer (w/lead shot out of a 16 gauge browning)

As a kid, it was an absolute wilderness.

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quote:The most remote town with residents used to be pilottown south of Venice but hurricanes have changed that. Had to get in a boat and ride 12-15 miles south of Venice to get there. They had a store, bar, post office, and a school house at one time. Most of my older family members were born there. Is pilot town gone now?....

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No more permanent residents since Katrina. Before Katrina, they had about 20 or so residents. Mostly older people with my grandparents being two of them. The pilots still stay there and a few people have camps. School & store I think went down in the late 60's with hurricane Camille.

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My father in law has a lease there too, Back in the day we would ride all day and never see anybody. I have been all over the Harrisonburg hills.

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They have some massive deer up there though... massive. The lease I am in now hasn't had a hunting club in there in 20 years

any where north of Dequincy and west of 171 is remote as hell.

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quote:walk down that beach That's not helping. Can't you just boat right up there?

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Yes you can. It's about 45min-hour boat ride south of Venice.

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Port Eads way further down than Pilot Town. There's a marina there now I think with places you can rent, i'm told.

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Port Eads is further than pilottown but it hasn't had any permanent residents (families) in a long time (probably 100+ years).

There used to be towns along the river in a few places south of Venice. Burwood (east bank near end of southwest pass), pilottown bayou (southwest pass then moved to where pilottown is now). The old timers even talk about towns along pass a loutre and a few other places down there.

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Port Eads is further than pilottown but it hasn't had any permanent residents (families) in a long time (probably 100+ years).

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I believe Buzzy Scarab lived there. Died in Katrina though.

Fair enough. Did nobody die at Port Eads? I do know that someone rode out Katrina there, and could have sworn it was him.