Arrived in Louisiana mid afternoon so once we got set up we had time to walk down to Lake Pontchartrain which is an estuary covering 630 square miles and looks more like an ocean as you stand on the small area of beach.
There is a causeway composed of two parallel bridges crossing the lake 23.83 miles. It is the longest bridge in the United States and the longest in the world to run continuously over water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pontchartrain_Causeway
The campsite is very big with around 200 sites though only a number have water and electric.
The park was badly damaged by Hurricane Ida in 2021 and was closed for some time.
The ruins of a sugar mill that was built in 1829 by Bernard de Margny de Mandeville who developed the area as a sugar plantation until 1852. The plantation income supported his lavish lifestyle. He named his large landholding Fontainebleau after the beautiful forest near Paris.
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