Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 56:1951

  • Louisiana Colonial Trails: means a system of trails or roads identified as the migration route of the Camino Real in the western part of the state from Natchitoches to the Texas border and the Harrisonburg Road from Natchitoches through east central Louisiana to the Mississippi River. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 56:1952

The purpose of this Chapter is to create the Louisiana Colonial Trails, which consists of those routes identified as the major routes used by settlers, travelers and European colonial powers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for travel to and across Louisiana and to designate those scenic highways which compose a modern tourist route paralleling the length of the Louisiana Colonial Trails.  

Added by Acts 1982, No. 57, §1.