Alexandria, Louisiana

Published by Jane Appel on

May 22-23, 2022

We try to schedule our stops so that our travel days aren’t more than about 300 miles. The drive from Memphis, TN to our campground south of Alexandria, LA was over 400 miles. Into a headwind. Using about 60 gallons of gas. The truck’s navigation system gave us bad directions at the start and the end of the journey. We are grateful we weren’t traveling in the Class A–we couldn’t have turned around in the locations we did at either end.

We came to Alexandria because it’s near the oldest cache in Louisiana. That cache is known as Wild Azalea and is only about 10 miles (as the crow flies) from our campground. Previous finders had left good suggestions for parking, hiking, and locating the cache.

Dave at the cache site
A previous finder had left this convenient sign.
Former gas station in Alexandria. (No cache but still picture-worthy.)
Bridge over the Red River.
Can you see the worms crawling on this cache container? Jane wants you to know she sometimes goes above and beyond to sign a log.
This light colors in this sandstone come from ash from western volcanoes.
Some thoughtful person placed planks across this stream so we didn’t have to cross on the log to which Dave is pointing.
Bayou Cypre
One of our trails wound through flat woods. We thought of Florida.

We visited two of Louisiana’s waterfalls. Really.

Little Bayou Pierre Cascade. We liked the tall magnolia tree over it.
For the earth cache at this site, we were asked to estimate the flow of water and how long it would have taken to erode the streamed to its present depth. Huh? How about a hundred thousand years?
Kisatchie Falls. 22 inches.
Mimosas were in bloom near the falls.
We snapped this sign for any reader who might need a dad joke. You know who you are.
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