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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EVANGELINE PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The ...

VILLE PLATTE, La. (KLFY) – Hiking is one of the many things you can do at Chicot State Park. The land consists of over 6,400 acres. The cool, clear waters of Lake Chicot have yielded record freshwater ...

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 ...

Chicot Lake in Evangeline Parish will be closed to fishing, boating and all other recreation for a period this fall when a drawdown is conducted for vegetation control and bridge repairs. The drawdown ...

EVANGELINE PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has scheduled a drawdown on Chicot Lake in Evangeline Parish for reduction of giant salvinia and for fish habitat ...