Walk the Wood Duck Trail, which was a plank road that led to an active natural gas well. Walk the Ring Levee Trail. Walk the Palmetto Trail for evidence of subsidence. Note how the palmettos grow taller in low areas, where the water table is higher, than on the ridges. Rose Thorne Park.
Barge traffic is frequent on the water way.
Four swamp tours are available in the area, including tours which take small groups to the pelican rookery on Queen Bess Island. Call the Jean Lafitte Tourist Commission for more information.