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Bayou Gauche Louisiana Map

Explore Bayou Gauche, Louisiana, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Bayou Gauche, Louisiana

How to Use This Bayou Gauche, Louisiana Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bayou Gauche, Louisiana. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Louisiana or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Bayou Gauche.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Bayou Gauche
State	Louisiana (LA)
County	St. Charles Parish
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	29.80686
Longitude	-90.422153
Population	2,161
Density	64.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	70030
Area Code	504
School District	St. Charles Parish School District

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About Bayou Gauche, Louisiana

Bayou Gauche is a locality in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,161. The population density is 64.9 people per km². Bayou Gauche is located at 29.8069°N, 90.4222°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 70030.

Bayou Gauche remains anchored to the landscape by the dark, slow-moving waters of the Bayou Gauche, which carve a serpentine path through the low-lying marsh and cypress-draped wetlands. It lies 10.4 miles south-southwest of Luling, LA (from Luling, LA: bearing 196°T), and is situated 4.5 miles southeast of Des Allemands. The horizon here is defined by the flat, expansive reach of the coastal plains, where the air hangs heavy with the scent of brackish water and salt-marsh grass, carrying the damp weight of the tide from seventeen miles away. Near the shoreline of the Simoneaux Ponds, the light at dusk bleeds into a bruised indigo, casting long, fractured shadows across the water that ripple whenever a heron breaks the surface. Beyond the immediate banks, the terrain remains soft and yielding, a landscape of intricate drainage and hidden channels that isolate Black Prince Island in a veil of green, creating a quiet sanctuary for those who live where the earth and water seem to trade places.

Generations of families have made their living from the harvest of the water, building a local economy rooted in the cyclical rhythms of the blue crab and crawfish trade. The daily labor of the boat captains and trappers mirrors the history of the region, where the influence of French and Acadian heritage lingers in the cadence of local speech and the enduring preference for life lived close to the current. Just a short distance away, the Bayou Des Allemands offers a protected expanse of wilderness that preserves the raw, untamed character of this environment, far removed from the faster pace of the inland cities. Life in Bayou Gauche proceeds with a deliberate, measured gravity, dictated by the movement of the tides and the seasonal shifts in the marsh, ensuring that the legacy of the land remains as persistent as the water itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bayou Gauche Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 267° W
Bayou Des Allemands (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 226° SW
American Legion Park (Local Park) — 2.5 mi, 292° W
Salvador Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 133° SE
Division Of State Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 6.4 mi, 005° N
Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion Project (State Recreation Area) — 8.8 mi, 036° NE
Veterans Memorial Plaza (Monument) — 9.1 mi, 015° N
Timken Wildlife Management Area - Couba Island (Local Conservation Area) — 11.2 mi, 090° E
Wildcat Stadium (Stadium) — 11.3 mi, 013° N
Ragin Cajun Airboat Tours (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 050° NE
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Barataria Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 11.7 mi, 068° E
Vietnam War Memorial (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 060° NE
Garden of Honor (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 059° NE
LaSalle's Landing (Public Artwork) — 15.5 mi, 042° NE
Louisiana Toy Train Museum (Museum) — 15.7 mi, 042° NE
Bayou Segnette State Park (State Park) — 15.8 mi, 072° E
Gumbo Festival (Attraction) — 17.2 mi, 061° NE
NOLA Wax Hands (Arts Centre) — 17.3 mi, 044° NE
Ken Hollis Theater (Theatre) — 17.6 mi, 048° NE
Swamp tour airboat (Attraction) — 17.6 mi, 104° E
New Orleans Nightmare Haunted House (Attraction) — 17.8 mi, 056° NE
J&S Gallery (Gallery) — 18.8 mi, 055° NE
Odenheimer Aquarium (Museum) — 19.3 mi, 065° NE
Prytania Theatre (Cinema) — 20.2 mi, 066° NE
Laurel Valley Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 267° W
Katrina National Memorial Museum (Museum) — 22.6 mi, 061° NE
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience (Museum) — 22.9 mi, 065° NE
Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.3 mi, 232° SW · 8,780 acres
Bayou Sauvage Urban National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.8 mi, 061° NE · 28k acres
Bayou Savage National Wildlife Refuge (Marine Protected Area) — 34.0 mi, 059° NE

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