Even though its a rather small area, there's a lot to see and do out there. Once the spiders and snakes go away for the winter, there's even more to do, too



Kinda neat how almost 70 years ago, this was one of the busiest Army bases in the country from the Louisiana Maneauvers, and now its part of the National Forest. When the Army closed the camp, they contracted a company to practice demolition and remove buildings... the story goes that the company started tearing everything out, including bridges and culverts, and stole it all to sell. When somebody from the government realized what all they had removed, well, it was too late to do anything (why rebuild a bridge for a closed area?) which is why there are several missing bridges and culverts which probably would have stayed standing.

Like over this drainage canal





The forest service had to dump these rocks in here, to keep the main road from eroding


The swamp




Golden Orb-Weaver spider... gross. They get as big as a grown man's hand





My dad took this pic of one in 2007:



In the last seven days I've seen an alligator, many deer, and man-eating spiders.

 

very cool man thanks for the pics...

I couldnt handle a spider web as big as the road ewwwww

 

Well, two drops of the bike are directly corrolated to having one of those things on me after not seeing the web and going right through it. They usually won't stretch a web longer than 6 feet so most roads are OK but many open roads and trails are impassable because the brush has grown up enough for them to take over

I can't wait for winter so they'll all go away and the brush will die back.

 

ewwwww no way

 

Thanks for the pics.....well except the spider, now I feel like something is crawling up my back. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Nice pics, i hate spiders so that grossed me out.

 

lol.. watch those things. they're insanely poisonous from what i hear.. i mean, like, real bad. spiders make some crazy big webs man.. i saw one stretch almost 150' from a pine tree to a bigass magnolia in my front yard as a little kid.. i have NO idea how or why. that web was useless. the nest was in the pinetree though.. big spider. and it was about 20' off the ground at that!! just wild.

that looks like some KILLER riding there.. man. lucky you!!

 

wow, that is a beast. Had to look it up.

wikipedia

 

Yeah its awesome, there's two trails totalling over 30 miles at Camp Livingston, plus all the concrete and gravel roads for dual-sport riding.

Yeah those spiders are poisonous, but from what I've read, the North American species aren't normally deadly. The S. American ones, however, will eff you up! Near ground level they only stretch webs about six or seven feet; higher in the trees they'll stretch some gnarley big webs. This is the worst time of year. Now until the first good frost, those bad boys are big and everywhere! Kinda takes the fun out of exploring and poking around.

Sorry for grossing everyone out! Here's some more pics from the camp (without spiders)

Main swimming pool. The pics don't do justice how big it is.





Warehouse



My dad (Danoman) has a bunch he took in 06/07 when he got his bike ('06 DRZ-400S) but I don't feel like uploading them all to my photobucket Here's the link to his album:

http://pages.suddenlink.net/danoman3/2007/index.html

This winter when the brush dies back I'm going to take a bunch of my own.

 

Your dad has some great pics as well.