Louisiana Department of Wildlife Announces Atchafalaya Basin Lottery

If you ask any real estate agent in Lafayette, Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, or New Orleans what the key component of a successful listing is they will tell you its the location. Location is everything when choosing a site for a new home or business. Location is also very important in the great outdoors in Louisiana.

Just imagine being able to have all of your hunting or fishing gear in one convenient place. That's why so many Louisiana families own or lease hunting or fishing camps. Having that convenient location next to where the action is can make all the difference between a successful adventure outdoors and a return trip to the house with an empty ice chest.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife has announced that some of the Atchafalaya Delta's most prime and pristine hunting sites within the Atchafalaya Delta Wildlife Management Area will be available for hunters who are looking for mooring sites for their houseboats. The houseboat mooring lottery is underway now and the deadline to submit an application for a mooring site is July 23rd.

LDWF is offering some 69 houseboat mooring sites throughout the Atchafalaya Delta WMA. The permits for those applicants that are approved will be valid from September 1, 2024, through March 16, 2025. In order to apply you must be 18 years of age or older. One application per person per vessel is accepted.

If you're interested in seeing a map of the mooring sites available you may follow this link. There is a $5 administrative fee charged for each applicant. The deadline for submitting your application is July 23, 2024, and you may follow this link to submit that application.