Lafayette, LA RV Rentals

Cypress trunks and hanging Spanish moss crowd the banks of the Borrow Pit Canal at Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, deep in Cajun country, and the water between them lies flat and dark. The canal loop by the park office is the first walk of the trip, best timed for the last hour of light, when the moss turns to silhouettes and the water holds the whole sky.

Summer is the case for a motorhome here. Louisiana heat and humidity hang on well past dark, so the appeal is coming back from a day on the water, plugging in, and running the air with the swamp still outside the window.

Lake Fausse Pointe lists 14 premium sites with sewer, water and electric, plus 32 more with water and electric across its waterfront and improved loops, as of September 2026. Lock one of those sites before you book the rig, then choose a motorhome to fit it. A couple traveling light can bring something smaller from the Louisiana campervan listings and use the same park.

Airboats through the Atchafalaya and boudin down Bayou Teche

The swamp day is the Atchafalaya Basin itself, on an airboat or a slower pontoon from the landings around Breaux Bridge. Book the dusk run if one is offered. The cypress go black against the sky, the moss hangs dead still over the channels, and the boat comes back in the dark.

The other day runs along Bayou Teche through Breaux Bridge and St. Martinville, old Acadian towns where boudin comes hot from the meat market counter and gets eaten in the parking lot. It's a slow drive on purpose, and it can swing south toward Maurice and Erath for a second round before you head back to the canal.

Farther south, Avery Island closes out a day. Jungle Gardens fills with egrets roosting over the water, and the air around the Tabasco grounds carries the smell of the barrels the pepper mash ages in. It's an afternoon, and you're back at Lake Fausse Pointe by dark.

Lafayette KOA and Cajun Heritage for a parked week

Some groups would rather park once on the Lafayette side and drive out each morning, with a pool waiting for the kids when the afternoon heat peaks. The Lafayette KOA in Scott, off I-10 at exit 97, lists level concrete pull-throughs for rigs up to 70 feet and 50-amp service as of September 2026, along with two pools, and it puts the swamp tours and Avery Island within day-trip reach.

Cajun Heritage RV Park in Breaux Bridge is the pick when the swamp comes first. It sits in the Atchafalaya Basin with full hookups and a pool, close to the tour landings.

Two festival weekends crowd these parks. Festival International brings music to downtown Lafayette in spring, and Festivals Acadiens et Creoles fills October, so the same pads and the same rental rigs are spoken for by people coming in for the music. If your week lands on either, reserve the site well ahead and book the motorhome right after.

Palmetto Island State Park on the Vermilion River

South of Lafayette, Palmetto Island gives a week to the Vermilion River, where quiet lagoons branch off the main channel under palmettos and cypress. It's easy paddling, the kind you can do with a kid in the front of the kayak, and the park has room to plan a whole stay around, with 95 premium sites carrying sewer, water and electric.

For a night on the Gulf edge, Cypremort Point State Park has a half-mile man-made beach with marsh and a boardwalk behind it, and pull-through sites with full hookups a short walk from the sand.

For the rest of the state by rig, the Louisiana RV page lays out the regions, and New Orleans has its own RV page for a week in the city's hookup parks.