Great town. Locals are nice. The best food and shops. Love the river tour or lake. Learned about…read morenew French sauce I don't remember the name. It had cheesy dip with mud bugs in it. Sorry I'm from Texas. All we have is Steak and Whataburger

First time coming here for business, it comes off as an interesting small town. Old downtown is by…read morethe river and it's nicely curated. Dining and hotel options are limited but would be fun to come for a quick getaway.

Very pretty park. Pay for the deluxe back in on the lake spots - worth it! Beautiful. Very safe,…read moreall just families camping. We stayed in the RV spots but the tent spots look nice too - but there are lots of trees so I bet mosquitos could get bad in the tent spots.

Great level sights, beautiful scenery, trails,bike paths,clean public bathrooms. Dog friendly,…read morestaff are wondeeful,happy,helpful. Park is well played out,the flow,walk around lake, is user friendly,wheel chair friendly. Lots of even ground on trails both walking hiking. Just a really nice must see,stay park. Has tent sites too that are level well maintained.

This is listed on Google as Natchitoches City Park and Pool. We visited the park. This is a super…read moreclean and newly renovated park that is conveniently located across the street from the Courthouse and Police Department. It also backs up to a very bad part of town which really concerned me. But on a sunny Thursday in August at 1pm it felt safe, was pretty empty and relatively clean (except for some food trash). They have tandem mother/baby swings, a handicap swing, a large play set safe for an able-bodied 3 year old and lots of grass. I would visit again! The pool was surrounded by a chainlink fence and staffed with a lifeguard. Just a few children getting their swimming lessons.

Four of us took a guided tour with Dee and Megan and both young ladies were exceptional. They were…read moreknowledgeable, polite and very patient with all of our questions! We are so fascinated with the history of the plantation and enjoyed every part of the tour!

I stopped by this national park site on a road trip. The entrance was a gravel road that wasn't the…read moremost obvious. The small farm was not a happening place, with not a soul in sight on the day I visited. An enclosure was playing some video content that came on without warning in the way that a horror movie would do trying for a cheap jump scare. There were several buildings, but none were open. There are tours, but they are at very limited times, and just walking the grounds didn't offer much. There is some interesting history to be discovered, but without the tour it isn't anything impressive. This was not a working farm kind of exhibit, with no actual animals and not a ton of meaningful exhibits. It's nice that the site is preserved, and maybe if you visit at the right time there's more to get out of it. However, I do recall when I was last in Shreveport I considered an hour road trip both ways to see this place, and I'm quite glad that I didn't.

This is a really good park. There is a separate dog park, a great playground. Walking trails, and a…read morefishing pond. They have very nice facilities for gatherings and do a good job with park maintenance. The entry fee is only a dollar per person, and two dollars more to fish in the stocked pond. The park is celebrating its one hundred year anniversary for good reason!

Really nice park. Good for kids. You have to pay though. I wasn't expecting that. It's worth it if…read moreyou're going to stay awhile but we were just stopping through to stretch our legs.

Chimp Haven is open in Oct and May for visitors--try to go! It is so informative. It is amazing…read morewhat they can do as a "no touch" facility and how they care for the chimps. They do all kinds of enrichment to keep them active. The guides know all 293 chimps by name ! Grounds are clean.

The website and google maps were uninformative about days and hours. While it was pleasant to drive…read morealong the roads and walk on the trails, it seemed like it wasn't helpful in explaining where people can and can't go and when. It just seemed abandoned, but open. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt because I really support the mission, but it was just a very forgettable experience.

Looking for a place to hike? Bike? Kayak? Bird? Bring horses for a trail ride?…read moreThis is it. Several marked trails, about 65 miles of paved and unpaved roads with old concrete ruins rising out of the forest. This was once the Longhorn Ammunition Plant and has a lot of history that you can read about in the visitor center (if you can find it!). The visitor center is behind the Refuge offices. Take the first right after you enter the gates, then the first left to find it.

This was a great find by accident. We found out about it while at the state park and it was…read moredefinitely worth the stop. It is an old army ammunition factory that was turned over to the wildlife and fisheries department. Shells of some of the old buildings still stand. Lots of birds and wildlife, but very, very few people.

This is one if the three islands located in Hodges Gardens State Park. It is the only island…read moreaccessible by car or foot. The island has a platform where several flagpoles are located surrounded by stone benches with a map on the ground in the center. Even though these structures are falling into disrepair with the map coming up off the ground and a few benches crumbling, it possess a certain charm with it's metal structural supports for the roof structure (above the benches) and breathtaking views. My favorite photo from our trip was taken here among the metal structural supports.

Our family stopped at Bringhurst Park in Alexandria, LA while on a road trip. It was a great place…read morewith a huge pavilion so that we could have lunch. Next to the pavilion is a spash pad to cool off on those hot summer days in Louisiana. There is a also a fun playground for your kids. Near the park is the Alexandria Zoo, which we didn't get to check out, but it looks small, but nice. Also, there is an old baseball field that is there too. If you want to see a video of our experience at this park you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8H2GlkVhEw

The forest park is very huge and there is a big water reservoir on the boarder between Texas and…read moreLouisiana. Both the forest and the reservoir have beautiful scenes and adventure routes. The forest has a 25 miles hiking trail and it is a beautiful jungle. There are diversified lives including: trees, shrubs, mushrooms, grasses, spiders, birds and more. There are paved and unpaved roads for more advantures in the forest. There are maps and emergency phone numbers everywhere in the jungles. There are arrows and other guiding signs for the hiking trails. The reservoir serves as fishing and boat adventures and there are parking spots every where. There are shops where one can get some fishing gears at.

This is the wrong entrance to the park I drove 5 hours to get to this park and I couldn't find any…read moretrails or any markers saying this is the main park entrance. Tried calling 10 time and nobody answered when there hours said open. Nobody in the town seem to know where the park was. Waist of time and gas.