New Blog 1: Grand Isle Rentals

Saturday 3 November 2012

Grand Isle Rentals

Grand Isle (French: Grande-Île) is a town in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, located on a barrier island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico. The island is at the mouth of Barataria Bay where it meets the gulf. As of the 2010 census, the town resident population was 1,296; during summers, the population including tourists and seasonal residents sometimes increases to over 20,000^{[citation needed]}. Grand Isle is statistically part of theNew Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area, though it is not connected to New Orleans' continuous urbanized area.

Grand Isle's main street is the sea-side start of Louisiana Highway 1, that stretches 436.2 miles away to the north-west corner of the state ending near Shreveport, Louisiana. Crossing Highway 1's automobile causeway at the west end of the island is the only land access to or from Grand Isle. Direct access to Grand Isle's seat of parish government is 95 miles (153 km) away in suburban Jefferson Parish which leaves the town somewhat politically isolated.