LAKE VILLAGE -- Lawanda Penick, owner of LJ's Cafe & Bait Shop in Lake Village, is worried about the next six months. In any normal year, she'd be heading into a comfortable summer season selling bait ...

LAKE CHICOT STATE PARK — Ten Arkansas state parks have "lake" in their name. But only one of them is entirely a natural lake rather than a man-made body of water. That's Lake Chicot, in the far ...

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 ...

The trip will take me all the way across south Arkansas--from Mississippi to Texas on U.S. 82. On the first day, I drive by two bodies of water that have been important to the history of this region, ...

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 ...

LAKE VILLAGE (AGFC) – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Fisheries staff have spent the last three weeks chopping and fitting PVC pipes to improve Lake Chicot, but they aren't concerned with how the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A lot of state parks have trails for hiking, biking and even horseback riding. But Chicot State Park near Ville Platte has trails for paddling a canoe or kayak through a ...

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents are investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred in Evangeline Parish on Oct. 6.The body of Daniel Reed, 71, of Jennings, was ...

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 ...