Kayaking with Laid Back Tours

New Orleans
Laid Back Tours offers day trips kayaking the scenic bayous and wetlands of greater New Orleans. See the Louisiana irises in bloom at the Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve, watch the graceful Great Blue Heron feed on the shore of Cane Bayou in the Big Branch Marsh Nation Wildlife Refuge, or paddle past alligators in the Manchac Swamps. www.laidbacktours.com

Gulf South
Creole Nature Trail is one of the first US designated scenic highways, a term that means the highway is a tourist destination in itself. It received an All American Road designation. The criteria for this title including possessing multiple intrinsic qualities, such as cultural, historic, or natural character; being nationally significant; and possessing features that do not exist elsewhere. [Review]