Road Trip

[@bonkers3010]

Thanks for the tip about Washington being a speed trap.

[@504RoadTrips]

Yeah, you have to watch some of those small towns. Especially when you see a "town limits" sign on the side of the interstate for a place you've never heard of. Little towns annex the property over the interstate for the purpose of writing tickets.

[@jamesortego268]

I love Whiteville, La. My Grandparent's had a store there next to Bayou Buff. The Catholic ⛪ Church is right behind where the store once stood. I spent a lot of time's there as a kid. So much fun.

[@jamesortego268]

I meant Bayou Beouf.

[@504RoadTrips]

Boeuf. I only know that because there’s a LeBoeuf Street spelled the same way.

[@ddnaomi]

Many of the locations you mentioned heading north from Lafayette were old rail road stations. Starting in Lafayette there was Ponte des Mouton, Carencro, Sunset, Opelousas, Nuba, Beggs, Garland, Dubuisson, Whiteville, Gold Dust, and so on up to Alexandria through Bunkie.

[@504RoadTrips]

Dominique Naomi yes...when the railroads were built, stations were built, and they became the foundation for the towns that grew up around them.

[@timothydauntain3329]

THANKS FOR THESE ROAD TRIP VIDEOS ---THEY ARE VERY NICE AND I REMEBER THESE ROADS AND ALWAYS ENJOYED THEM GROWING UP IN SOUTH LOUISIANA BEING BORN IN BERWICK LA AND HAVING FAMILY ALONG LA 182 AND US 167/LA 10 IN VILLE PLATTE LA -----THIS VIDEO END CLOSE TO CAZAN LAKE ( TARZAN S LAKE) LA WHERE MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS WERE FARMERS AND RESIDED ON THE FARM

[@bullinmd]

Looks like LA 182 was old US 167 from Lafayette to Opelousas at Martin Luther King (LA 749 on Windows 10 Maps). From there to the north, LA 182 may have been its own routing. South of Lafayette, LA 182 appears to be old US 90.

[@504RoadTrips]

Looking at a 1956 map, US-167 went along the current US-182 past LA-749 to a crossroads called Nuba, which is north of Opelousas, and is the current US-167 as well as LA-10 (just west of Exit 23 on I-49). The part between Nuba and Beggs (where LA-10 branches off to the east) was LA-10, then and now, and then the part north of Beggs was labeled LA-182. I don't see any map putting it along LA-749, but that doesn't necessarily mean it never went along that path, since a lot of these maps are woefully lacking in that kind of detail. All of the state highways in Louisiana were renumbered in 1955, and 182 was assigned at that time, but didn't include all of the current route until I-49 was built, and it was extended along the old US-90 route in increments as the new interstate-highway-complaint US-90 was built. The next earliest map I can find is from 1954, and has the old Louisiana Highway numbers, and doesn't indicate US-167 at all around there. US-167 was originally created in 1926, and had its southern terminus in Arkansas, so maybe it didn't extend that far south in 1954.