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All New---Message Board for
Livingston Parish
1/2 mile before the State Park is a place called Lloyd Patterson Smokehouse This place has some of the best smoked sausages that I have ever tasted. Pick up some and cook it at your campsite you can't go wrong. Another business on the way to the park is Bergeron's Produce and Gifts. You can get fresh vegetables there. Fontainebleau State Park -- Mandeville, Louisiana Bass Pro Shops Denham Springs, Louisiana
Tickfaw State Park--27225 Patterson Road, Springfield, LA 70462-8906; 225-294-5020 or 1-888-981-2020) is located 32 miles east of Baton Rouge off I-12. From Baton Rouge, take I-12 to the Albany/Springfield exit. Travel 2 miles south on La. Hwy. 43, merge with Hwy. 42 and continue one mile to the center of Springfield. Turn west on La. Hwy. 1037 and travel six miles to Patterson Road (across from Woodland Baptist Church), then south 1.2 miles to the park entrance. Tickfaw State Park is a unique 1200-acre park located along three miles of the Tickfaw River. The park offers diverse recreational, nature and educational opportunities.
Please note that this information may not be totally accurate and up to date. Check with the park for the latest activities and prices. Four Distinct Eco-Systems Strolling through four ecosystems on over a mile of boardwalks through Tickfaw State Park, visitors can experience the sights and sounds of a cypress/tupelo swamp, a bottomland hardwood forest, a mixed pine/hardwood forest and the Tickfaw River. Snowy Egrets and Great Blue Herons can be seen gathering crawfish and other food amid a mix of palmetto, wax myrtle and native azalea. Sightings of alligators, turtles, snakes, squirrels, opposums, songbirds, wild turkeys, and migratory waterfowl, as well as tracks of beaver, coyote, deer, fox, and racoons, offer close encounters with wildlife less than an hour from Louisiana's capital city. The adventurous can explore the park's 1,200 acres that include backwater swamps, and dark-watered sloughs that form the wetland network created by the Tickfaw River. Periodically the park site serves the region by detaining floodwaters when winter and spring rains overflow the steep banks of the Tickfaw River. These periods of occasional flooding offer a unique opportunity to educate visitors on the importance of periodic flooding in the cycle of life that makes wetlands an invaluable habitat and breeding ground for wildlife and fisheries.
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