re: I just want to go camping

I agree, but with the parks closed that still leaves plenty of places to camp. One of my favorite when younger was simply along the river batture.

Cross the levee and you're in another world. My cousins and I would go down into lower St. Bernard and set up camp in the batture and fish to catch dinner, build a nice camp fire to get some hot embers and wrap potatoes in foil and bury them in the sand under a layer of the embers to bake.