Sightseeing
History BuffWindsor Ruins
No admission feeWalk an accessible trail around 23 towering Corinthian columns, the remains of a plantation mansion that burned in 1890.
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Lake Bruin State Park
Fish for bass and crappie from three piers, rent a boat or cabin, and watch wood ducks among the bald cypress on an old Mississippi River oxbow lake.
Lake Bruin, near St. Joseph, Tensas Parish, LA · St. Joseph, LA
About Lake Bruin State Park
Lake Bruin State Park sits on the shore of Lake Bruin, a crescent-shaped oxbow that was once part of the Mississippi River, near St. Joseph in northeast Louisiana. The grounds were a state fish hatchery from 1928 to 1956 before becoming a park. Today there are three fishing piers, a boat launch and boat rentals, swimming, picnic tables, a playground, rental cabins and campsites with water and electricity. Anglers catch largemouth bass, white crappie and bluegill, and birders look for wood ducks, belted kingfishers and red-bellied woodpeckers among the bald cypress.
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