Destinations · Louisiana
LA · 30.3127, -91.7925
Promised Land Scenic Byway, Bayou Teche Scenic Byway and Zydeco Cajun Prairie Scenic Byway are 3 of 7 signed byways within 30 miles of Henderson, Louisiana.
Understand
Henderson is the last town on the western side of the Atchafalaya Basin if traveling east on Interstate 10. It was a few swamp shacks until the U.S. Highway Administration built I-10 in the 1960s and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the levees.
The drives · Designated roads lead.
Ordered by federal designation, then by how close each one runs to Henderson. All-American Roads and National Scenic Byways are named by the Federal Highway Administration, not by us.
National Scenic Byway · 2 mi out
National Scenic Byway · 30 mi out
State scenic byway · 1 mi out
State scenic byway · 12 mi out
State scenic byway · 15 mi out
State scenic byway · 17 mi out
State scenic byway · 21 mi out
Planned by the Byway engine on real roads: every stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature, and the total time counts driving and the stops themselves.
Loop 1 · 4 h window · 73 mi
3 h 26 loop · 4 stops · back by 7:26 PM. Incorporates Bayou Teche Scenic Byway.
Touches Bayou Teche Scenic Byway, Promised Land Scenic Byway, The Real French Destination Scenic Byway
Loop 2 · 8 h window · 276 mi
7 h 55 loop · 5 stops · back by 11:55 PM. Incorporates Bayou Teche Scenic Byway.
Touches Bayou Teche Scenic Byway, River Road Scenic Byway, Great River Road
Byway's engine bakes two loops from Henderson: 4 h, 73 miles, 4 stops; and 8 h, 276 miles, 5 stops. The time counts the driving and the stops themselves.
The 8 h loop stops at I-49 Rest Area, Louisiana History Museum, USS Kidd, Mississippi River Bridge and 82nd Airborne Division Memorial. Each stop traces to an OpenStreetMap feature.
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
The engine starts from town, weaves the byways and verified stops around it, and hands back an honest schedule — zero hallucinations.
Byway plans around your taste, verified places, real weather and opening hours — then opens every leg in Google Maps with one tap.