In fact, there's one Louisiana city that has all this and more, and Southern Living made sure to include ... take riverboat cruises and swamp tours, take cooking classes, as well as go on ghost ...

Nearly 40 years after regulators declared Devil's Swamp Lake and surrounding wetlands ... Michael Tritico, a southwest Louisiana environmentalist who commented on the new restoration plan, faulted ...

and is home to the largest swamp in America, the Atchafalaya River Basin. Atchafalaya covers more than a million acres of southern Louisiana in a vast stretch of marshland, punctuated by tall trees.