Chicot State Park has partially reopened to the public. On June 11, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Office of State Parks announced the reopening of Chicot State Park in Ville ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Unfortunately, we understand that this is going to impact our visitors with plans to visit Chicot State Park and Lake Bistineau State Park,” said Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser, whose office oversees ...

VILLE PLATTE, La. (WAFB) - A long fishing pier is the perfect place to experience daybreak at Chicot State Park. The quarter moon reflects in the still lake water, and daylight slowly creeps across ...

LAKE VILLAGE -- I wish I had brought a couple of kayaks to Lake Chicot State Park. My adventuring partner and I visited this remarkable spot Sunday as part of our quest to visit all 52 Arkansas state ...

Chicot State Park in Evangeline Parish will be utilized as an overflow area for possible COVID-19 patients from certain regions of the state. Liz Hill, Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness ...

(KLFY)– Chicot State Park near Ville Platte and Lake Bistineau State Park near Doyline have been tagged as additional regional staging areas for the current medical situation in the state. As a ...

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, ...