Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow Ambush Site

Nobody agrees on how the trap was sprung. Frank Hamer's posse expected the pair to call on Ivy Methvin along this road. Dallas deputy Ted Hinton said the posse tied Ivy to a tree the night before; other accounts put him in the road, waving the car down. The officers fired about 130 rounds. Film of the car showed 112 bullet holes, and the coroner counted 17 wounds on Clyde Barrow and 26 on Bonnie Parker. Their bodies went to Arcadia, where a crowd grew from about 2,000 to 12,000 and souvenir hunters cut at hair and clothing.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bistineau State Park — 18 mi
  A 903-acre state park on a lake the Great Raft made, opened in 1946 with a separate section for Black visitors from 1956, and now known for cypress water and a lake that is drawn down.
• Germantown Colony Museum — 20 mi
  Two hewn-log buildings from an 1836 religious commune near Minden, the earliest of its kind in Louisiana, with a museum added in 1975.
• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 23 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.

More markers nearby

• Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker — steps away
• Ma Canfield's Cafe — 7.5 mi
• Driskill Mountain — 12 mi
• Germantown Colony — 17 mi