This is National Travel and Tourism Week and what better place to be a tourist than in your own state? Louisiana has a lot to offer in the line of interesting places and people. As a matter of fact the Creole Nature Trail has been nominated for USA Today and Rand McNally's "Best of the Road" as a part of their search for the Best Small Towns in America.

There are 28 points of interest on the Creole Nature Trail, beginning in Lake Charles Louisiana, that have been nominated as "best places."

I've only been to a one of the "best places," Lake Charles, and that means I have some work to do. Here is a full list of the best points of interest nominated:

Have you been to any of these wonderful places you can ONLY find in Louisiana? Well, if you have you can visit bestoftheroad.com and vote for your favorite and give you own review! You will need to hurry as voting ends on May 15, 2012.

So, what's in it for the winners? The points of interest receiving the most votes will be listed on Rand McNally's GPS devices, its online maps, in blog posts and as part of a Rand McNally e-book created for the NOOK Tablet.  Every review of a place, regardless of the category selected, will count as a vote!!

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