Interstate 10 in Louisiana
Videos
Page
Interstate 10 (I-10), a major transcontinental Interstate Highway in the Southern United States, runs across the southern part of Louisiana for 274.42 miles (441.64 km) from Texas to Mississippi. It passes through Lake Charles, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, dips south of Lake Pontchartrain to serve the New Orleans metropolitan area, then crosses Lake Pontchartrain and leaves the state.
I-10 running west of New Orleans, spanning the Bonnet Carre Spillway at Lake Pontchartrain
I-10 eastbound passing over Lake Charles/Calcasieu River near Lake Charles
Until around 1960, I-10 and I-59 would have split near the present I-510 interchange in eastern New Orleans.
Atchafalaya Swamp Freeway in Iberville Parish
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Videos
Page
Lake Charles is the fifth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the parish seat of Calcasieu Parish, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Founded in 1861 in Calcasieu Parish, it is a major industrial, cultural, and educational center in the southwest region of the state. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Lake Charles's population was 84,872.
Ryan Street in Lake Charles, 1903
Downtown Lake Charles, c. 1917
Henderson Bayou
Swimming in polluted Lake Charles opposite the Olin Mathieson chemical plant in 1972. Cleanup efforts of Lake Charles' waterways have been so successful that Prien Lake now supports both recreational and commercial fishing, and has a safe public beach.