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 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 ...

My family and I headed to Ville Platte Sunday for week two of our staycation adventure — see all 21 Louisiana state parks. This week's destination was Chicot State Park. We had it all planned. We ...

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 ...

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 ...