Plaquemines Parish

This ferry crosses at the farthest downriver point a vehicle can cross the Mississippi, and in 1965 Hurricane Betsy tore it from its moorings and left it on the levee. The river keeps rewriting the map: in 2011 it broke through its east bank about five miles below the village, making Mardi Gras Pass, the first new distributary in the delta in decades. Many see it as a chance to rebuild wetlands, while an oil company wanted it closed because it hampered access to wells. Isaac flooded this side again in August 2012.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 24 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.

More markers nearby

• Port Sulphur — 8.9 mi
• Woodlawn High School and the Struggle for Racial Equality — 19 mi
• Mary Plantation — 20 mi
• Bethlehem Baptist Church School — 21 mi