Louisiana Park List

Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: Covered pavilion with one picnic table; Four barbecue pits; Boat launch; Boat pier; Paved parking ...

A.C. Steere is home of "Leaps and Bounds", Louisiana's first boundless playground. This unique playground offers universal playground modules that meet the diverse needs of all children, including the mental and physically challenged individuals. This park has these other amenities: Two Lighted Ballfields; Two Tennis Courts; 3/8 Mile Trail; ...

Park is 117 acres and features: Open play area, lighted tennis courts, soccer fields, basketball courts, backstop ball diamond, covered picnic area with grills, restrooms, water fountain, children's playground with baby equipment, campground, disc golf course, jogging trail, bike/mountain bike trails, nature trail, nature station, and historical or commemorative ...

Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: Playground ...

Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: Swimming Pool; One Outdoor Basketball Court; One Lighted Ballfield; Playground; Picnic ...

Park is 31 acres and features: Tennis courts, soccer fields, basketball courts, lighted ball fields, batting cages, t-ball, covered picnic areas, restrooms, and children's ...

The project encompasses 595,000 acres of the largest contiguous tract of bottomland hardwoods in the United States. The Atchafalaya Basin is a scenic semi-wilderness area of hardwood forests, cypress stands, marshes and bayous. It is one of the last great river swamps left in the nation. ...

Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge, about 30 miles west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and one mile east of Krotz Springs, Louisiana lies just east of the Atchafalaya River. Its 15,000 acres are part of the largest bottomland hardwood swamp in the country. This beautiful swampland offers a multitude of recreational ...

Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: One Outdoor Basketball Court; One Recreational Ballfield; Playground; Picnic Area; ...

Discover the creatures of North and South America underwater! Enter the Caribbean Reef through the Aquarium's 30-foot-long aquatic tunnel where you'll lurk with creatures of all shapes and sizes, surrounded by 132,000 gallons of water. And check out the coolest critters to hit New Orleans ...

The Audubon State Historic Site is a 100-acre woodland site that includes the 1806 Oakley Plantation House. John James Audubon, naturalist, lived in the home for 4 months while working on "Birds of America." A collection of first editions of his print is displayed. Formal and kitchen gardens, two ...

Discover all the animals that call BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo home. More than 1,800 animals await you in the beautifully landscaped Zoo. You'll enjoy L'aquarium de Louisiane, which features the fish, reptiles and amphibians of Louisiana. Take a stroll through Parrot Paradise, where you'll see rare and colorful birds ...

There is no permanent pool at this flood control dam. However, Bossier Parish maintains Ivan Lake on 520 acres of reservoir lands. A major waterfowl and upland game management and hunting area is open to the public. There is an accessible (wheelchairs) hiking trail available and ...

The Nature Conservancy purchased an 11,255.51-acre core tract from the Fisher Lumber Company, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation. The Conservancy then sold the land to the USFWS over a span of 5 years. Cocodrie Bayou is designated as a state scenic river. ...

Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: One Mile ...

Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife was authorized in 1986 and officially established in 1990. The refuge is located within the city limits of New Orleans and encompasses approximately 23, 000 acres. It is the largest urban National Wildlife refuge in the United States. The refuge is one ...

Bayou Segnette State Park offers the best of everything. Just a thirty-minute drive across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, a multitude of recreational opportunities awaits visitors of all ages--boating, fishing, canoeing, picnicking, playgrounds and, of course, swimming in the wave pool, as well as an ecosystem that offers ...

Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge, established in 2001, is located in St. Mary Parish in southeast Louisiana. The 9,028 acre refuge is composed of wet bottomland hardwood laced with bayous and canals. The primary mission of the refuge is to preserve and manage habitat for the threatened Louisiana black ...

Park is 29 acres and features: Comeaux Recreation Center, soccer fields, lighted ball fields, batting cages, jogging trail, covered picnic areas, restrooms, water fountain, and children's playground with baby equipment, concrete slab for in-line ...

Park is 70 acres and features: Tennis Center (sells tennis balls; string jobs; tennis lessons by appointment) tennis courts (lighted courts, clay courts and hitting wall), ball parks, covered picnic areas, children's playground with baby equipment, fishing pond with pier and boat ramp, and historical or commemorative markers, large ...

Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: Two full-court basketball courts with bleachers; Six half-court basketball courts; Playground equipment; and Walking ...

The beauty and central location of Betty Virginia Park makes it one of the top visited parks in Shreveport. Have a great time at this park! Some of the amenities include: One Recreational Ballfield; 1/2 Mile Trail; One Playground; Picnic Area; Multi-Purpose ...

This 2 acre park features: Gazebo, tables, benches, used primarily for celebrations and ...

Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) was established in October 1994, and is comprised of 15,000 acres of coastal marsh and pine forested wetlands. Of this total, the Conservation Fund has donated over 10,000 acres to the Service from Richard King Mellon Foundation funds. The purpose ...

Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1997 through a unique partnership with the city of Monroe, Louisiana. The 2,000 acre scenic lake is owned by the city and serves as its secondary water source. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a free ninety-nine ...

Blackwater Conservation Area, which opened on March 26, 2002, is BREC's newest nature park. It is located near the intersection of Hooper Road and Blackwater Road alongside the Comite River. Two large fishing lakes are located on 63 acres of land that has been revived with 7,000 new trees ...

Amenities: Children's Playground, Covered; Open Play Area; Park Bench; Walking & Jogging ...

On June 30, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96-288 authorizing the 40,000-acre Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Washington and St. Tammany Parishes, LA, and Pearl River County, MS. Since that time, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been acquiring bottomland hardwood habitat ...

At Bogue Chitto State Park, visitors will experience a diversity of natural habitats on one of the most dynamic and scenic river systems in Louisiana. The 1,786-acre site includes small streams, cypress tupelo swamps, a hardwood forest, upland forests and a rolling ...

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