If you have lived in Franklinton or Bogalusa for more than a summer, you already know the parish does not really run north-south along Highway 25. It runs along the Bogue Chitto. The river is the reason people keep coming back to the same three or four places between June and September, and it is the reason the fall calendar keeps loading up around a single park in Bogalusa.
This is a weekend built the way a resident actually builds one. It assumes you are not driving in from Covington for the day, that you have your own cooler, and that you would rather know which put-in has the shorter shuttle than read another list of "hidden gems."
The spine is the river, not the town line
The Bogue Chitto touches almost every summer decision worth making here. It runs through
