This Swimming Hole Near New Orleans Will Make Your Summer Epic
While finding a good hotel pool to go swimming at is essential for surviving a New Orleans summer, there’s also a few options for swimming in nature that will bring a smile to your face. Bogue Chitto State Park is one of those places. Dipping yourself into this river will connect you back to nature in a way that is sure to relax you and rejuvenate you!

You can find the park and swimming access by driving to Franklinton, LA, which is past Covington and Mandeville off of I-12. Take US 190 N to Highway 25, and the entrance will be 20 miles on the right.

The park is open daily and costs $2 to get in.
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And there are some very interesting landforms on the trails here---including Fricke's Cave, offering unique sandstone spires and pebbles rare in Louisiana.
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Here, the Eastern Fence Lizard losing his old skin to make way for the new!


Plan your next vacation to the swimming hole at Bogue Chitto State Park today!
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