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Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
Be A Jean Lafitte Junior Ranger
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Discover the treasure of Jean Lafitte and become a National Park Service Junior Ranger!

Earn a Junior Ranger badge and a certificate at any of the park's six sites. Admission to all sites is free.

Explore the park through scavenger hunts, activities, puzzles, and more. Invent your own national park. Plot a course for Jean Lafitte. Depending on which park site you visit, you can play along with Cajun musicians, travel through history, hunt for spider webs, pack your gear for an 1815 battle, or learn about the foods that made Louisiana cooking famous.

Ask at the visitor center information desk for a Junior Ranger booklet and join the Jean Lafitte ranger team!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A hungry Louisianan peels crawfish.  

Did You Know?
Although there are over 250 species of North American crawfish, Louisiana’s annual 100-million-pound, $50 million harvest consists mainly of two species. There are a lot of ways to eat crawfish: crawfish etouffee, crawfish pie, crawfish stew, boiled crawfish, crawfish beignets, crawfish bread.....

Last Updated: April 29, 2008 at 10:48 EST