Great find. Had a couple hrs to kill between hotel check out…read moreand our swamp tour. I asked the swamp tour folks about a local park and they sent us here. Turn in at the Library. Initially the playground area was kinda lame. Tiny. Little kid centered with not much variety. Upon further inspection the park has a dog park, concrete walking trails and a small water play area. The water play area was great. It was tiny as well but a lot of fun for the kids on a hot day. I found their suits but had to sacrifice a shirt as a towel. Great little spot. Looks to be brand new and the first phase of development. I would expect this park to grow exponentially in the upcoming years. Great spot to burn a couple yrs.

The park is always kept in good condition and is in an amazing area. A real staple of the…read morecommunity. Plus they have a dog park for both large and small dogs!

Nature center is nice and the trails are nice. !3 entry fee. Trail is closed off due to rebuilding…read moreafter the flood happened. It's after you get over the bridge that you will see the barricade.

During our cross country road trip in the summer of 2022, we traveled with the truck and trailer…read morefrom Los Angeles to Key West and back. My wife booked a few nights in Tickfaw state park, sight unseen, to be more or less in the vicinity of New Orleans, a plantation tour, and a swamp boat tour that we had booked months in advance. As it turned out, we actually enjoyed this state park stay more than our visit to New Orleans! The state park entrance is actually at the back of a neighborhood of sorts, on a narrow two-lane road that cuts away from the highway at a weird angle. Once inside the park proper, visitors are treated to beautiful swamps, complete with cypress trees, Spanish moss, and all the critters you would expect to find here. The campground we enjoyed had full hook ups, a small wooden deck, and a long back-in pad for our trailer. There was also a resident raccoon who kept us honest about locking things up at night, and securing coolers and food. Tickfaw state park features long boardwalks with railings, that afford visitors beautiful hikes in different parts of the park through different kinds of trees and plants. Unfortunately, many of these were still damaged in the summer of 2022 from the previous year's Hurricane Ida that blew through southern Louisiana and surrounding areas. The only trail that was not affected by this was the one without a boardwalk, so we enjoyed a hike through beautiful pines that went down to the river. Despite most of the trails being closed and damaged, we still enjoyed ourselves here, and had a good time. In the evening, I enjoyed casting topwater lures in on the cypress knees and trees, and caught & released several big bowfin... A fish that is sort of a cross between a catfish a bass, and a pit bull I suppose. I'm not sure when we will be back through this part of the world, but Tickfaw State Park is definitely a place that I would stay again: off the beaten path but close enough to where you want to be, peaceful and quiet, and the kind of southern serene that helps a SoCal guy like me to slow down and enjoy life a little bit.

Definitely won't be taking a nature walk out here. It's unfortunate that all the elevated walkways…read morewere destroyed. Not a single word of it on their site. Still very pretty and looks like a chill fishing spot.

Of all the places in all of the areas surrounding New Orleans, you might be wondering how I ended…read moreup here. I'm wondering that myself. This is kind of a strange park. First of all, to get here you have to drive down a shell road, and if you don't have a truck you can pretty much forget it because the shell road has a lot of potholes and dips and I'm not sure a regular car could handle it. Then you have to drive under a bridge and, again, if you don't have a truck you're in bad shape because the under part of the bridge fills with water and doesn't drain. Maybe there are others ways to get here, but that's how I got here. The park itself is okay, It's right on the lake, but it's kind of that funky part of the lake in NORCO that no one really visits. It kind of smells like dead fish and there are trucks that drive up and dump broken cement over there. I'm not exaggerating. There are gazebos if you want to go out there and have a picnic, there's playground equipment for kids and there are picnic tables. There's also a nature trail that actually looked pretty decent, but I didn't go exploring. The park has only been around for about 12 years and it's not terrible. I'm always happy to see something done with empty space and it's nice that families have a place to go on nice days.

This place is amazing and kids go crazy over it. Highly recommended for kids between 1 and 10. You…read morecould spend at least an hour or more here with the amount of different things they have. The children's center is next door and they have plenty of shade. I wish they had this type of park near me.

This is the best free playground I've ever been to. Almost Everything is wheelchair accessible!…read moreAlmost everything is under sun shades! There's a water mister for during the summer! There's separate areas for 2-5 and 5-12 years old. There's a metal fence around the entire thing and every gate has a yellow flower lock up top. The park is open Monday 1100- dusk and Tuesday-Saturday 0800- dusk. It is right next to the st. Tammany Trace bike trail and the st. Tammany Children's museum. I would LOVE to have a playground like this near my home town.

This would be a 5 star rating if they did even the bare minimum of maintenance. It's such a nice…read morepark, but because no one is fixing the little broken things here & there it has obviously seen better days. Everything is rusted, you can barely play any of the sensory instruments bc the sticks you used to play them are no longer attached to the strings. Which is such a an easy fix. There were a ton of spots where the asphalt has been torn away at so it's like having potholes on a playground. Definitely a let down.

Everything was perfect! Highly recommended for families of all ages and abilities. From the parking…read moreto the food, we wanted for nothing!

I absolutely love this park! The views are gorgeous, it's so big, and there are so many different…read morethings to do there. After a long day, I love to go here and just be present. I dated this guy who brought me here on our first date. While I hate that guy now, I'd meet him over and over to discover this park!!

We love the Perkins park! The kids playground area is great for my 3 year old. It's much smaller…read morethan the play area at the highland park but I'd rather it that way. It's easier to keep an eye on your kids and the park is never over crowded. My son loves bringing his trucks into the sand area and I can sit and relax right next to him on the benches. There are restrooms right next to the playground/baseball fields. The walking trails are wide enough for multiple people to be walking, running and biking without bumping into each other- unlike highland. Overall great place and wish there were more like it in Baton Rouge.

My Husband and I was married here at Shelter 2 , 22 years…read moreago . What fantastic Memories. Lafreniere is a great Park . One our special day it rained around Us except on us !! WOW WOW . As I walked across the bridge at Shelter 2 Into my Husband arms . It was so BEAUTIFUL

This park is amazing, i love taking my dog for a walk in the mornings, never lose a day.read more

Such a nice quiet area. We enjoyed walking around, checking out the historic area. Everything was…read moreaccessible and close, and easy to navigate. There's truly something for everyone is this area.

Good for kids, pets, and people. Free. No bathroom. Clean. Has picnic tables. Fenced smoke-free…read moreplayground. Gazebo. War memorial as well as various other memorials and time capsule burials. Water fountain. Sidewalk. Benches. In walking distance of PJ's and downtown Hammond.

The park is cleanish, lots of trash under the tables, strings from left over birthday parties…read more Including in the kid play area. Lots of spoons If you have a party, or any sort of trash, throw it away. The ground around the play park is gravel, little tiny rocks, and not enough if you're going to cover the ground, so it's mostly dirt. The equipment is faded, kinda dirty, but still playable. It's a park, what do you expect. There's openings on the sides of the fence, so you have to keep an eye on your child at all times just because of that. No pets. There's a book box which is pretty nifty for hiding painted rocks! There's a splash pad which is closed on mondays but oh well! But still run for the kids. There's a sand volley ball court, and a soft swinging area.

Nice little park with lots to do. I don't care for the location but the little skate park is nice…read moreand there's lots of swings and things for my little one

Great little summer secret I found for my grandson. There is a very cool splash pad at the sports…read morepark and it even supplies you with sunblock. My grandson loved the splash pad and I loved that it was free.

Nice park for kids. Splash pad clean and bonus covered area with picnic tables for parents.read more