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Discover Bush & Folsom
BY CARROLL DEVINE
ST. TAMMANY LITERARY ARTIST OF THE YEAR, 2023
THE NORTHWEST HORSE-COUNTRY area of St. Tammany Parish offers numerous opportunities for rejuvenation—for slowing your roll, experiencing nature and engaging with our animal friends. In a roughly triangular area encompassing north Covington, Bush and Folsom, you may find your new tempo.
At Splendor Farms in Bush, see yourself connecting with horses as you go trail riding through woods, creeks and open fields, or take horseback riding lessons. Enjoy the sweetness of the petting farm animals, or go hiking or fishing. Spend nights in their comfortable accommodations.
Visiting Wild Bush Farm + Vineyard, you’ll learn about winemaking, have a tour and a tasting in a charming vine-draped building and be delighted with music under the stars at a spring or fall concert.
Looking for a deeper dive into serenity? Escape to Little River Bluffs Preserve and Retreat in Folsom. Enjoy peaceful nature at its best. Stay in a cabin or “refined rustic” lodge house amid 30 wooded acres on the artesian-fed Little Tchefuncte River. Go kayaking, tubing, pedal boating, pond fishing or swimming in their mineral pool or doing whatever unwinds you.
A wagon tour at the Global Wildlife Center safari park offers you rewarding closeups with various species of free-roaming animals.
But you’ll find friendly encounters of the human kind at the beautiful laid-back gathering place of Giddy Up Folsom. Giddy Up also hosts outdoor live music in spring and fall, and you might easily connect with the work of local artists at the Far Horizons Art Collective next door. Voilà rejuvenation.
CULINARY HOT SPOTS
B&B GENERATIONS - 82366 LA-25, Folsom, (985) 260-5000
FOLSOM MARKET - 82343 LA-25, Folsom, (985) 465-3663
GEAUX PIZZA AND WINGS - 82361 LA-25, Folsom, (985) 796-4207
GIDDY UP FOLSOM - 82292 LA-25, Folsom, (985) 260-5060
GLYNN’S DRIVE-IN OF FOLSOM - 82439 LA-25, Folsom, (985) 796-4700
GUS’S RESTAURANT - 82343 LA-25, Folsom, (985) 796-0230
HOUSE OF SEAFOOD BUFFET - 81790 LA-21, Bush, (985) 886-2231
LA SERENDIPITY VINEYARDS - 82178 Old Military Rd., Bush. (504) 481-0716
ROUX 25 - 82010 LA-25, Folsom. (985) 796-4466
SCOOPS FAMILY RESTAURANT - 82245 LA-25, Folsom. (985) 796-8087
