Walking area in BR

Forest Park has a trail through a wooded area that has a good bit of shade

LSU Lakes is partially shade. 50/50.

Otherwise, maybe Comite park but I think there are a lot of bike riders.

Would also recommend Bluebonnet swamp trail. Almost 100% shaded

LSU’s hilltop arboretum also has some good shade but is much shorter

comite river park

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Do you have to pay to walk the trail there?

I hear Scenic Highway is pretty nice.

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What are some walking area (parks, etc) in BR that has mostly trees / shade with a walking trail?

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East Lakeshore at the LSU lakes is mostly shaded. You could park at the Tennis Center and walk in the shade out and back instead of making the loop around western sides of the lakes. Plenty people do these out and back walk/runs in the middle of Summer for that very reason.

Here's a 2 mile(out and back) path from May Street that's almost completely shaded except for the bottommost little peninsula you see.

Baton Rouge is a weird town. I do land surveying and heavy construction. Over the years I have had about 100 people come up to me telling me that they did not want sidewalks in their neighborhoods. I always ask them to explain themselves and I usually get the same answers, they did not want people walking in/through their neighborhoods.

Highland road park has a decent trail. Haven't been there in a couple of years though.