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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (From the Lt. Governor’s Office) – Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana Office of State Parks announce the reopening of Chicot State Park in Ville Platte to 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 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 ...

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 near Ville Platte is being prepared to house coronavirus patients who need to be quarantined. "Chicot State Park is being set up as an 'overflow' for patients who need to be ...

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 ...

Weaving a kayak or canoe around the cypress knees in the calm waters of Chicot State Park’s man-made lake can be solitary or social, depending on where your head’s at. Either way, it’s a pleasant, ...

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. Bryan Hendricks has been the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette outdoors editor since 2005. He covers hunting, fishing, ...