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François Coulee threads through Lafayette’s Acadiana Park Nature Station, carving an ancient path originally etched by the Mississippi River. The little waterway, whose name echoes the French word for “flow,” drifts east beneath loess-capped bluffs, then slips into the Vermilion River. Walk its bridges and you cross two worlds: prairie terrace above, swampy floodplain below. Black, clay-rich soils—deposited when Ice Age torrents scoured deep trenches—still nourish oaks, sycamores, and the wildlife hiding in their shade.

There are about six miles of forested trail on this side of the canal that divides Acadiana Park into northern and southern halves.

The Nature Station is the center for educational programming and outreach within 150-acre Acadiana Park.