Lake Fausse Pointe State Park
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park is a park in Louisiana, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. The nearest named place is Loreauville Park, a park 7.7 miles away. Promised Land Scenic Byway passes 1.6 miles off. 84 named places lie within 25 miles.
Lake Fausse Pointe State Park occupies a 6,000-acre site in the Atchafalaya Basin. The area surrounding the park was formerly the home site of the Chitimacha Indians. From the middle 1700s, the region was dominated by French and Acadian farmers and trappe
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.6 mi off the Promised Land Scenic Byway
- 7.1 mi off the Bayou Teche Scenic Byway, National
- 12.6 mi off the Jean Lafitte Scenic Byway
- 23.5 mi off the Louisiana Scenic Bayou Byway
84 named places within 25 miles
- Loreauville Park: 7.7 mi
- Burleigh Park: 8.5 mi
- Willow Wood Park: 8.5 mi
- Jeanerette City Park: 8.7 mi
- Ward Eight Recreation Center: 8.8 mi
- Jeanerette Bicentennial Museum: 9.1 mi
- Chitimacha Museum: 11.2 mi
- Shadows on the Teche: 12.6 mi
- Bayou Teche Museum: 12.7 mi
- Grevemberg House Museum: 17.3 mi
- Rice Mill, Conrad & Konriki: 12.4 mi
- McGee's Louisiana Swamp Tours and Adventures: 20.9 mi
- Mcgees swamp tour: 20.9 mi
- Champagne's Cajun Swamp Tours: 21.9 mi
- De La Houssaye's Swamp Tours: 22.1 mi
- Chitimacha Veterans' Monument: 11.1 mi
- Chitimacha Veterans' Monument: 11.1 mi
- F9F-6 P/C Mark Porrier Memorial: 12.2 mi
- 82nd Airborne Division Memorial: 22.3 mi
- Vietnam and Korean War memorial: 24.1 mi
- Sundial: 12.3 mi
- Blue Dog Statue: 12.7 mi
- Statue of Mary: 18.1 mi
- Buddha Statue: 20.4 mi
- Attakapas Island Wildlife Refuge: 15.2 mi
- Jungle Gardens: 20.0 mi
- Butte La Rose Rest Area and Tourist Information Center: 22.4 mi
- Butte La Rose Rest Area and Tourist Information Center: 22.5 mi
- Red Bluff: 21.4 mi
- Jefferson Island Rip Van Winkle Gardens: 22.3 mi
- Atchafalaya: 22.6 mi
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:47 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 06:07 | 19:36 | 20:11 |
| September equinox | 06:56 | 18:33 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 06:59 | 16:35 | 17:12 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 51 | 55 | 61 | 67 | 74 | 80 | 81 | 81 | 78 | 69 | 59 | 54 |
| Precip in | 5.1 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 6.6 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jeanerette 5 NW, 8 mi away.
- American Alligator30 obs
- Green Anole18 obs
- Prothonotary Warbler15 obs
- pickerelweed10 obs
- Chinese Tallow10 obs
- River Cooter9 obs
- baldcypress9 obs
- Eastern Pondhawk9 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/630031611
Day trips start here
- New Iberia · 13 mi
- St. Martinville · 15 mi
- Avery Island · 20 mi
- Henderson · 22 mi
- Atchafalaya Basin · 23 mi
- Acadiana · 28 mi
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