20 Acres of Marsh on Bayou la Loutre

Twenty acres of marsh on Bayou la Loutre in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, at $500 an acre. It is the lowest-priced of the four tracts offered here and the simplest way to own a piece of coastal Louisiana. Read this part before you go further. The engineer could not pin this tract down. The legal description places Lots 49 and 50, containing 20 acres, somewhere inside Sections 32 and 33, Township 13 South, Range 18 East, and his note records that no other information was found or provided. You are buying 20 acres within those two sections, not a mapped rectangle. Budget for a survey, and price the uncertainty into what you are willing to pay. This is a water access only tract. There is no road to it. Reaching the property means going by boat. The setting is the draw. Thousands of acres of wetland surround these holdings, supporting redfish and speckled trout fishing, duck hunting, crabbing and shrimping, with Lake Borgne and the Gulf within reach and the Biloxi Marsh close by. St. Bernard Parish sits immediately east of New Orleans, so this is coastal wetland within easy reach of a major city rather than somewhere remote. The nearest launches are at Yscloskey and Hopedale. Three other tracts are available separately: 382.8 acres, 50 acres and 30 acres. They are not one contiguous block, so buying more than one does not give you adjoining ground. The location study was done by McKay & Associates, a Louisiana engineering and land surveying firm, working from legal descriptions and USGS quadrangle maps. It is expressly not a boundary survey and no field work was done. Elevation, flood zone, permitted use and mineral rights all need checking for your purpose. Call the land owner, Matt, at 812-241-5653.