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.

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 ...

But Chicot State Park near Ville Platte has trails for paddling a canoe or kayak through a beautiful Cypress tree filled lake.