What a find - this park is great. There are 2 campgrounds, a beach, fishing pier, lakefront cabins (fully furnished for $90/night and sleep 8)
a small visitors center & museum along with the ruins of a sugar mill and for the very adventurous - tepees. 
We have had a great time here, weather has been wonderful. Daytime temps have been in the 70s, evenings cool and waking up to 57 degrees is no problem for me. With Hazel, walking is definitely part of the program and I will bet I have done at least 10 miles over the last few days and Bruce even more.
We did not do New Orleans after all - decided instead to maybe go in early December and stay in the city. It will make walking tours (our preference) easier and we will not have the dog or cats to worry about in the motorhome. We did travel the 29 mile Causeway from the north shore over and back on Monday- and drove along River Road south of the Mississippi for awhile - but again have preferred the campground to most everything else.
Last night we did a wonderful steak dinner on the grill (continued eating of the defrosting foods) and tonight was supposed to be something grilled also, but when it defrosted I found it was beef again. Conveniently we had to try a local establishment - Louie & The Redhead Lady. It has been written up in several publications and its reputation is deserved. Very local, small, nothing fancy but the food was great. All these years I thought that I hated Lima beans, but that changed tonight as I had the best fried shrimp and limas I have ever eaten (no, not together as a dish, separately served - fried shrimp with the limas on the side) - what a change to past recipes I have tried. Bruce had the blackened grouper with sweet potato fries and the salad served is homemade slaw with garlic biscuits. We shared a piece of very delicious hummingbird cake for desert. neither of us left hungry. Bruce is disappointed we didn't try them as soon as we got here so we could have eaten there more than once. I am sure we will be making this park a regular stop on any of our westward trips with The Beast so will definitely be back to try them again. Another place we will try is La Provence - much more money, but it is a John Besh restaurant and some of the locals we spoke to say it is the the best French food in LA, Something to look forward to - and to bring clothes for also. We are not "fine dining clothes horses" and would definitely have been under-dressed if we had attempted it tonight.
We are leaving early tomorrow morning to hopefully get through Baton Rouge before rush hour gets in full swing, so have to quit to get everything in its place for travel. We are off to Potter's Creek Park in Canyon Lake, TX. See you there.
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