Lake Fausse Pointe State Park, State park in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana

Lake Fausse Pointe State Park covers 6,000 acres in Iberia and St. Martin parishes, about 18 miles east of St. Martinville beside the Atchafalaya Basin. The park borders Dauterive Lake and partly encircles Lake Fausse Pointe, the water body that gives it its name. Louisiana cypress dominates the vegetation, and the land was once Chitimacha territory.

The park area was historically inhabited by the Chitimacha people before European settlement, and later used by French and Acadian farmers during the mid-1700s.

The park lies on the ancestral land of the Chitimacha Nation, and the lake that gives it its name reaches partly into the park. In 1999 the state named the main road and conference center after the late State Representative Bo Ackal of New Iberia. The interpretive center holds exhibits on the plants and animals found in the park.

Visitors can access boat launches, rent canoes and kayaks at the interpretive center, stay in deluxe cabins or primitive campsites, and explore three marked hiking trails.

Five canoe-only campsites line the marked water trails, each with a dock, table and fire ring; Canoe Site #4, Highland Waters, sits on an island under large live oaks about 1 mile from the interpretive center. Canoe Site #5, Pack or Paddle, is not the same as Backpack Site #5.