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Lake Bistineau, a narrow reservoir covering 15,550 acres, is located in northwestern Louisiana and is connected to the Red River and eventually to the Mississippi.

Bistineau was created in 1800, after a huge log jam in the Red River flooded several thousand acres of land. The lake started to drain after the area was successfully dredged.

The lake as we know it today was created after a permanent dam was built across Loggy Bayou. Clyde Connell, an abstract impressionist painter who lived in a cottage by Lake Bistineau, has immortalized the lake.

With an average depth of seven feet, the lake occasionally suffers from proliferation of giant salvinia ferns that tends to choke up the waterways.

Lake Bistineau State Park was established in 1938 and provides visitors an opportunity for boating, fishing, hiking, and biking, and it has numerous playgrounds, two boat launches, and a number of camping cabins.

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