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 ...

Visitors can go early for the canoe tour and hang around for the critters at Chicot State Park in Ville Platte on Saturday, April 29. The guided canoe tour of Chicot Lake runs from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

VILLE PLATTE, La. (WVUE) - At 6,500 acres, Chicot State Park in South Central Louisiana is the state’s largest state park. Its 2,000-acre lake is perfect for canoes and kayaks. If a long hike is more ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A lot of state parks have trails for hiking, biking and even horseback riding. But Chicot State Park near Ville Platte has trails for paddling a canoe or kayak through a ...

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 ...