American Queen Mississippi River Cruise 2023

We were supposed to be up in Cincinnati this weekend for the River Roots Festival with our friends from We Work the Waterways, Living Lands & Waters, and so many others keeping the river spirit alive. But plans changed, and we couldn’t make it this year. Instead, we found ourselves rolling the back roads of Houma, Louisiana — and there she was… the American Queen. Once the pride of the Mississippi. Now resting quietly in a scrapyard, her name still shining through the rust. Kind of surreal — whi