catahoula island

Catahoula Island is the name I gave to the long land mass in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana that lies to the north and west of the village of Catahoula.

There are three bridges onto the island. One at the southernmost point of the island, near Red's Levee Bar, where Bayou Mercier Road begins. Another where Bayou Mercier Road ends at the Catahoula Levee Road. And a third farther north, halfway to Butte La Rose.

Most of the finger-shaped island, except for a hamlet at the southernmost knuckle, is uninhabited. The Catahoula Levee Road and the channel beside it wind their way along the eastern edge of the island. The western edge of the island is a channel connecting Allemond Point, the northernmost tip of the island, with the village of Catahoula and Catahoula Lake at the southernmost tip of the island.