Cypremort Point State Park, State park on Vermilion Bay in Louisiana, United States

Cypremort Point State Park is a coastal park in southern Louisiana with a man-made sandy beach that opens directly onto the Gulf of Mexico. It offers elevated rental cabins, boat docks, a fish cleaning station, and open water access for swimming and boating.

The park was created to give inland Louisiana communities a place to reach the Gulf Coast for recreation, an area where natural sandy beaches are otherwise rare. The man-made beach was added specifically because the shoreline here does not naturally form sand.

The park's name comes from nearby Cypremort Point; "Cypremort" is French for "dead cypress." Chitimacha tradition holds that one of four markers of their tribal land was a great cypress standing at what is now the park. Visitors can crab, water ski, windsurf and sail from the shore and the sailboat launch.

The park is open to day visitors and to those spending the night in one of the cabins, which come equipped with basic cooking gear. Coastal weather can shift quickly, so checking local conditions before going out on the water is a good habit here.

Despite being a beach park, the surrounding wetlands are home to alligators, black bears, nutria, and muskrats that can sometimes be spotted near the park's edges. Early morning walks along the less-used paths give the best chance of seeing them without much effort.