Louisiana Highway 24

Louisiana Highway 24
Route of LA 24 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by Louisiana DOTD
Length	35.647 mi[1] (57.368 km)
Existed	1955 renumbering–present
Tourist routes	Louisiana Scenic Byway: Wetlands Cultural Byway
Major junctions
West end	LA 20 in Schriever
Major intersections	Future I-49 / US 90 in Gray LA 182 in Houma LA 57 in Houma LA 56 in Houma LA 55 at Klondyke
East end	LA 3235 in Larose
Location
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parishes	Terrebonne, Lafourche
Highway system
Louisiana State Highway System Interstate US State Scenic
← LA 23 → LA 25

Louisiana Highway 24 (LA 24) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs 35.65 miles (57.37 km) in a general east–west direction from LA 20 in Schriever to LA 3235 in Larose.

The route has two distinct sections, the longer of which travels through Terrebonne Parish on either side of Bayou Terrebonne. It serves as the main highway through the city of Houma, which is also the parish seat. This portion of the highway is bannered east–west, though it runs primarily north–south. Southeast of Houma, LA 24 does assume an east–west trajectory as it turns away from Bayou Terrebonne and proceeds to the Lafourche Parish community of Larose, located at the junction of Bayou Lafourche and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

LA 24 was designated in the 1955 Louisiana Highway renumbering, its two sections previously bearing different designations—State Route 69 along Bayou Terrebonne and State Route 966 along the Bourg-Larose Highway. Like many of the region's older rural highways, the former evolved from the natural strip of high ground that formed on the banks of the bayou while the latter was constructed on a man-made embankment by the state highway department in the early 1930s.