Camp Livingston Louisiana

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Brent White addressed the police jurry and explained the Forest Service was working to turn old Camp Livingston into a recreational park and memorial for the years i served as an army training facility durring WW2. He asked the jury for help in cleaning off areas needed for their horse riding club. If you have […]

Camp pamphlet See photos here

Looking for someone to donate a clear readable copy of the camp blueprints for use on the website. I also need the railroad maps for the camp. I found a copy at. http://www.selu.edu/Southeastern Louisiana University ? Hammond, Louisiana But they want $85 to scan them. If you have a copy please contact me or if […]

Photo from Webshots 1940-41 Camp Livingston, La., Lt. John Walker, Illinois Army Natl. Guard activated during Louisiana War Games, 1940-41

Found this on the geocaching site. this structure was for tram engine storage. if you look north the old track bed is still visible. there are five more bunkers along its path. i,m told these were for target storage and replacement.there is also some earthworks nearby i don,t understand. this system makes a circle to […]

New camp and Bombing range maps now online. catahoula_district_map New road maps

In September, 1940, Army officials announced plans to construct two additional training camps in Central Louisiana, one near Tioga, just north of Alexandria (eventually named Camp Livingston) and one near Forest Hill, about 18 miles southwest of Alexandria (eventually named Camp Claiborne). The need for still more training facilities led to plans announced in October, […]

Transfered from comments: Org post here jkelly I am heartbroken, no more riding 4 wheelers or my jeep out there. Guess I will have to start going other places with my family. We sure did enjoy it out there for the last few years. Good memories and good fun. Why cant they just leave well […]

I don’t know why they don’t post this so you can find it but here is a Brochure for the camp trails. Has the rules and a Map. Its 2mb in PDF Click here.

Camp photos from 2007 Click Here

New photos have been posted from a pamphlet telling about the camp. See photos here

Was searching YouTube and came accross this video. Skeet shooting is not allowed in the camp because other people are using the trails. Sec. (36 CFR 261.10(d)) Occupancy and use. The following are prohibited anywhere in the Kisatchie National Forest Discharging a firearm or any other implement capable of taking human life, causing injury, or […]

PINEVILLE ?The Kisatchie National Forest has finalized the decision to restrict motorized travel to designated routes. This decision eliminates cross-country travel by ATVs (four-wheelers, motorcycles, trucks, etc.). The decision finalizes a process that began several years ago, said Gretta Boley, Forest Supervisor of Kisatchie National Forest. We have done our best to provide the needs […]

PINEVILLE —New recreation fees will go into effect January 1, 2008 at some Kisatchie National Forest sites. All new fees will be clearly posted at the sites on the information board. “The funds collected from fees will be used to maintain and enhance recreation sites and trails,” said Forest Supervisor, Gretta Boley. “The Forest Service […]

chris Hi, I was looking over the units serving at your site to look for more information on my dad\’s time there. In a wartime journal her recorded that he went to Camp Livingston on 12/14/1944. He had been transferred to the infantry from the army air force. He says he was assigned to Co […]

Can anyone let me know who is managing the Camp Claiborne web site, or know what the the problem is. Posted by Roger West

It was in the early 1940s, Louisiana was just emerging from the devastating economic blow of the Depression years, when a series of military exercises brought thousands of GIs to Winn Parish and other parts of Central Louisiana, in an event that became known as the Louisiana Maneuvers. The Maneuvers would help prepare soldiers for […]