When you think of Louisiana, images of Mardi Gras parades ... Read more: The Most Beautiful Places In America's State And National Parks With over 100 miles of trails in Kisatchie National ...

This came after the National Parks Service completed a multi-year review of the request. From summer 2023 through summer 2024, the agency evaluated the site’s historical context and value.

Traditionally, individual parks and the National Park Service have touted how successful the previous year was. That has been especially true since a spike in attendance during the COVID pandemic.

(AP) — A Louisiana landscape of centuries-old sugar ... rare federal protection following a multi-year review by the National Park Service. But this month, the agency withdrew the 11-mile ...