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Atchafalaya Basin Festival

Event Date: November 12th, 2022

The Atchafalaya Basin Festival is packed with family fun activities including Cooking Contest, Arts and Crafts, and of course Awesome Cajun Music Bands and much more. The festival offers Posters, T-Shirts, Raffle Tickets, Live and Silent Auctions, and Great Food and Drinks on the day of the festival. The annual festival is always held the second Saturday in November.

The Atchafalaya Basin is America’s largest wetland and the site of the nation's last cypress-tupelo. If the Mississippi River had its way and was not contained by levees then today most of the flow from the Mississippi would be into the Atchafalaya River and the volume of water through New Orleans would be a trickle compared to it current volume. The Basin is the largest flood protection system in the world and the key components of the flood control plans for Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Today the basin is a wonderful playground for fishing, frogging, skiing, wakeboarding, kayaking, birding, hunting and much more. The basin has been a tremendous resource for South Louisiana and has been mined for Cypress trees, oil & gas, fish, animal and more. From levees to canal, oil to lumber, alligators to fish, natural habitat to hunter paradise, house boats to hardwood forests, the basin has a long and emotional history.