Chicot State Park is Louisiana’s largest state park encompassing a wide variety of habitats within its 6,400 acres in Evangeline Parish where visitors can listen for barred owls in a bottomland ...

Chicot State Park, also known the largest park in Louisiana is home to a new wheelchair for visitors. Chicot is one of seven other parks across the state that have been equipped with an all-terrain ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – People who live near Lake Bistineau are expressing their concerns about Lake Bistineau State Park being used for people who have COVID-19 to stay. Officials announced ...

The sun glimmers through Spanish moss as light rays decorate cypress trees. A kayak floats along silently below, the paddlers inside studying the Great Blue Heron fishing along the shore. This is ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s Louisiana’s largest state park, and it also has one of the state’s longest hiking trails. Chicot State Park near Ville Platte is perfect for the outdoor enthusiast. A ...

Weaving a kayak or canoe around the cypress knees in the calm waters of Chicot State Park’s man-made lake can be solitary or social, depending on where your head’s at. Either way, it’s a pleasant, ...

LAKE VILLAGE -- I wish I had brought a couple of kayaks to Lake Chicot State Park. Bryan Hendricks has been the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette outdoors editor since 2005. He covers hunting, fishing, ...