Palmetto Island State Park is close to 1,300 acres and is the newest state park in Louisiana, opening in the fall of 2010. Over 100,000 people have visited the park just this year, a record number.

Daybreak at Palmetto Island State Park located near Abbeville in South Louisiana. As the sunlight fills the forest and ponds, nature comes alive.

The park is one of the state's newest, as it opened to the public in 2010. Features: Camping sites, six cabins, 0.7-mile nature trail, canoe trail and rentals, boat launch, playground, splash pad ...

I have heard some refer to Palmetto State Park, not entirely inaccurately, as a “starter park.” At 270 acres, it is small, just like the hardy, evergreen dwarf palmetto for which it’s named.