Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum
118 Cotten Road Patterson, LA 70392
Devoted to the Golden Age of Aviation, visitors thrill to a surround theater re-creation of a 1930s air race. Artifacts and machinery from South Louisianas cypress logging industry are also on view. Free admission.
The 9.5 acre park shows the many various plants and trees that grow abundantly wild along the ridges of these swamps – palmettos, elephant ears, cattails, fern, many varieties of iris and other flowers, moss-laden oaks, berry vines, cypress, and tupelo.