re: I just want to go camping

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Tell us more about the batture. Is that still a thing, i.e. legal?

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Can't vouch on the legality of it but I'm pretty sure down in lower St. Bernard, nobody is going to give a damn if you camp out for a night or two.

The problem right now is the water level of the river and how far into the batture it reaches.

I love to fish the river off the road leading to Braithwaite. If going down St. Bernard Hwy. past Violet about 3 or so miles there is a road that crosses a set of railroad tracks on the right at a red light.

It is a 2 lane road that passes a State Park on the left and there is another set of railroad tracks that cut across the road on a diagonal. Not far past there they have a road that crosses the levee on the right, across the street from a huge commercial business EBC or something like that. You can drive over the levee and park your car to not block that road access for others who fish out there.

Usually from the levee to the river there is at least 100 yards of batture with lots of driftwood for fires, silt for setting up a tent with no rocks under it and lots of willow trees overhead.

But, if the river is high enough, it may still be pretty wet in that area.