Best Glamping near Avondale, LA

Every time we visit this park (which is a lot) we are able to have a new and fun adventure!

When my children were very young. This was one of the first places in the area to have a splash park for my children to run and play while staying cool in the south Louisiana heat.

Move up a few years, Tickfaw has provided myself and children with hours of fun, safe and informative hikes along the well maintained boardwalks through South Louisiana swamps.

As my children have grown we have still been able to explore the park further by utilizing the campgrounds! The tent camping section has defined/ private tent sites with picnic tables, and parking next to each site. The Rv park also boost a fun and family atmosphere, with fishing ponds, bike riding, canoeing, and primitive hiking. All with clean and air conditioned restroom facilities easily accessible to all sites.

Went for a few nights solo camping (with my dog) in late January, so we had the tent area to ourselves until Friday afternoon. Really impressed with the cleanliness of the grounds, but some of the fire pits and grills could use some work. Great variety of campsite layouts, as well as a couple of wheelchair friendly ones. Facilities were clean and plentiful. Several miles of trails showcasing the beauty of southern Louisiana. Will definitely be going back.

This park is way south in Louisiana. It was a super interesting area to explore. We had some of the best fried chicken we have ever had from a gas station! The beach view isn’t the greatest with oil rigs dotting the horizon, but it is such an interesting area and we are so glad we checked it out! The campground was nice and it also had free laundry which is a huge plus!

Nice sites. Close to town with stores and restaurants. Just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans.

Pads are level, wooden deck fire ring, plenty of room for tents, laundry room bathroom & showers were clean, playground well kept. My boys enjoyed the fishing. Short drive to French Quarter.

Nice little campground 20-30 minutes from NOLA. Perfect spot for camping outside of the city. The facilities were clean and well maintained. The mosquitos were fierce after dark. Short drive to Barataria Preserve for seeing wildlife. Sites are are large but watch what side your picnic table may be on.

Fairly large area an can take almost any size RV. This park has a laundry room in the shower house / bathroom and free internet. (although usually very slow) It's about as close to New Orleans as you can get at a state park. Staff is good with helping with directions.

I stayed here for two nights while visiting New Orleans. At check in I asked for a tent site and was told every site is a tent site. I arrived at the space I was assigned and there was very little grass areas and NONE FLAT. Meanwhile I look across the road at several empty sites that would have been very accommodating, lots of flat grass! Yes I should have driven back to the office, but it’s a long distance from the office and campsites and I was tired and decided to make it work. BTW I have a small backpacking tent, anything larger and I definitely would not have fit!

The second day we had a very heavy rainfall and the location I picked for my tent completely flooded. I had to drag my tent to a slightly higher very slopped spot in the rain.

Given how few tents I saw at this campground, couldn’t the registration office have a list of which sites might best accommodate a tent??

We stayed here to be close to New Orleans. It is still a bit of a drive into the city, but there is a ferry you can take also. You still have to drive to the ferry, but it is supposed to be closer. We didn’t use the ferry though. This is a nice state park that has pretty scenery and free laundry!! It’s a little cutthroat in the laundry room, but if you can get a machine it is pretty nice to be able to catch up on laundry for free!! The sites were level and spacious and they had trash cans at just about every site that was a nice bonus. This is our first LA state park and we are very impressed!  If you are in a RV, be careful coming in - there are some massive speed bumps!  We were ok, but our neighbor thinks he cracked his coach on one of the speed bumps.

Large campsite with 100 spots filled mostly with RVs.

Pros

• 20 minutes from NOLA
• friendly staff! we arrived late at night and staff let us check in the AM! They’ll also let you drive through to pick an available spot.
• very clean laundry room! Loads were $1.75
• hot showers :)
• stop at Joe’s Donuts for beignets :)

Cons

• bathroom design is meh. Not sure if they have ventilation so the floor always seemed wet. Many things are starting to rust. Bathroom stalls are awkward size/position.
• most sites don’t have privacy. Some have privacy on one side. We liked 81 and 84 for this reason and close to the bathroom’

This was a great place- especially for an overnight. Easy to navigate through the park- all concrete. This site was level. No wifi, but AT&T cell service worked fine. Water and Electricity with dump station on site. Trashcans conveniently around the park.

Nicely wooded campground. Some ambient traffic noise. This is a good campground for day trips into NOLA.

Located only 15 minutes from the heart of New Orleans!! The campground is spacious and each site is separated by trees or bushes. It’s very affordable like most state parks are, which is a plus. The bathrooms and showers were heated and clean, but I did have a tree frog join me during my morning shower. The laundry room charges $1.75 per load and there is no change machine FYI. The sites flood easily due to the marshland climate so be aware of that. Our site even came with a deck which was nice. Overall we enjoyed our stay very much so!

Why we booked: It was either this or a private campground that's closer to the city but an RV parking lot that costs 4x.

Campground: Run down at best. Place needs some serious love, especially the asphalt. 

Quirks: It's a good little drive into the campground. It's also CRAZY dark at night, so your choices are blasting lights and blinding campers or running over a possom.

Site: Meh. 

Nearby: Riding bikes around the park was pretty sweet. Saw lots of birds and a few gators. The stroll around the campground was pretty okay, as well. But as soon as you leave the park, you're fighting traffic that's fighting veteran potholes.

Value: Probably fair.

Nice place to spend some time. Lots of room in the campsite. Quiet, pet friendly. Clean bathrooms and showers. Playgrounds at each of the restroom buildings. Laundry is also available $1.75 each for wash and dry. Very humid- but it is New Orleans, after all. A few trails to hike. Can also launch a boat to fish. Pool was closed while we were there (July 2022). But seemed like it would be fun.

We really enjoyed Bayou Segnette. It was safe, clean and well cared for. The sites were big with plenty of space between! It was a great place to stay while we did the Jean LaFitte swamp tour and checked out New Orleans.

We stayed here for 3 nights in a  pop-up camper, used the bathhouse. This campground can't be beat for access to New Orleans and price, but it was badly damaged in Hurricane Ida in 2021 and has not been maintained very well. The bathhouse was clean but not ventilated, so it was always wet. One temperature for showers - hot! At least it wasn't cold. And all the nice trees in the surrounding bayou are now either down or at an angle that assures they're going to die. They cleaned up the trees from walkways and roads, but nowhere else. We heard this park is the biggest moneymaker for LA, but compared to other LA parks we stayed at, they're not using the money here. Still, sites are reasonably large and level, quiet at night despite the closeness to the city, and the price can't be beat.

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I wanted to give this place a good review but…Site was dirty with cigarette butts and the grill was not cleaned out in what looked like a long time. Fire pit was still smoldering. Bathrooms were out of toilet paper and soap. Told the receptionist at the front gate. It was still not restocked. Bathrooms were dirty and very moldy shower curtains. Looks like it was once a nice place but not anymore. Needs some updating and someone needs to take some pride in their job and at least clean and restock the bathrooms

Good option to visit New Orleans. Grassy site which are nice. Bathhouse could be better maintained.

We had problems with the campground the moment we got here Staff was very unhelpful When we got to our campsite there was water exploding out of the hook up They gave one of the spots we reserved to someone else The only positive is it’s a beautiful area

We live nearby so we have camped here countless times and attended many events here.  This is the first place our youngest camped, and she has asked to have multiple birthdays here.  I normally wouldn't review a state park so highly, because generally they aren't remote or secluded enough.  Yet in this case I am just genuinely glad we have this resource so close to the city.  

The campsites are standard, but be cautious of water, this is a bayou after all.  We stayed in a cabin once and balked a bit at the price and the 2 day minimum, but wow.  They are more like floating condos.  They are roomy, clean and decorated much better than I expected.  

In our many visits over the years we have come to know a ranger or 2.  And one thing I know is that these people care about this place alot.

Generally speaking, State parks have been some of the nicest places to camp and often the cheapest. This campground was very expensive, the bathrooms were not in good condition (and there was a snake in the doorway one evening). There is a laundry room but one of the machines wasn't working (out of 2) which delayed us leaving. The camp host banged on our door in the morning because we'd forgotten to put our reserved sign on the post. The park police repeatedly harassed us to leave even though we had vacated our campsite and moved into the parking area (we had been told it was no problem if we needed to do this for a few hours after check out time, and the Campground was very empty).

This is a very nice state park. Sites are well spaced out with water and electric. No dump at sites but at entrance. Close to city bit a rural feel. Staff drives the grounds, and gates are locked at night.