1. Caddo Lake, Texas/Louisiana
Of the handful of towns on Caddo Lake, none sums up the feel of this place better than Uncertain, TX. Mystery seems to shroud its 109 square kilometers (27,000 acres), where Spanish moss hangs like drapery from tree limbs in the world’s largest cypress forest. In fact, this is not so much a lake as an interconnected maze of bayous, swampy marshes, and backwaters (beer boats hid out here during Prohibition.)
Alligators lurk under barely submerged tree roots, frogs pull up on lily pads, and Bigfoot has also allegedly been sighted. About the only way to appreciate Caddo’s primordial beauty is by boat or canoe – but by all means, don’t forget a map.
