Louisiana Highway 301 (
LA 301) runs in a southwest to northeast direction along Barataria Boulevard from a dead end at
Bayou Villars to
LA 45 north of
Jean Lafitte,
Jefferson Parish. LA 301 follows the west bank of
Bayou Barataria and begins at a point where the bayou is joined by the
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near their intersections with Bayou Villars. After briefly traveling northward, LA 301 curves to the east through a sparsely populated area opposite the town of Jean Lafitte. The route terminates at a T-intersection where southbound LA 45 turns onto a ramp to join
LA 3134 (Leo Kerner/Lafitte Parkway) on a high-level bridge across Bayou Barataria into Jean Lafitte. Northbound LA 45 continues straight ahead along the bayou toward
Crown Point. LA 301 is an undivided two-lane highway for its entire length. It is classified as a rural local road by the
Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (La DOTD). The average daily traffic in 2013 was reported as 560 vehicles. This route continued southward by ferry across Bayou Villars and followed the present
LA 3257 to
Bayou Rigolettes opposite the small community of
Lafitte. In 1948, the ferry service was replaced by the present bridge across Bayou Barataria on nearby
LA 302 (former
State Route C-2060). This effectively severed the two portions of Route 1307 as the bridge provided access to the lower portion of the route from a different location. The entirety of Route 1307 became LA 301 in the
1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering. In the early 1990s, La DOTD renumbered disconnected portions of several state highway routes, and the southern portion of LA 301 was designated as LA 3257. While LA 301 has been truncated on one end, it has been slightly lengthened on the other end, taking over about of LA 45 when the original
swing bridge across Bayou Barataria on that route was replaced in 1976 by the current high-level bridge just upstream. As of 2011, the entire route of LA 301 is proposed for deletion as it does not meet a significant interurban travel function as determined by La DOTD's Road Transfer Program. ==Louisiana Highway 302==