Family Camping & Family Hiking in Louisiana

My wife and I have always loved to travel. Now that our kids are older, we have decided to take our kids on a family camping trip. This is the first time that we have taken our kids overnight camping in a tent. Our son is 3; our daughter is 5. This should be interesting.

After scouring the internet to figure out what kind of supplies that my wife and I needed to make this trip happen, we set off to Chicot State Park near Ville Platte, LA.

We went on a hike at the Louisiana State Arboretum because the kids can earn a Junior Ranger badge if they completed three activities and a workbook. We took a guided hike through some of the trails in the arboretum. It was really beautiful there and the park rangers really knew their stuff.

After the hike, Amelia found a caterpillar near the entrance and she took it to a park ranger and asked what kind of butterfly it would turn into, and the ranger told her that it would actually turn into a moth.

Here is a video of our experience at the Louisiana State Arboretum if you want to get a better idea of what it is like there.

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