The Louisiana Office of State Parks is no longer operating one of its parks in North Louisiana.

The property of Hodges Gardens State Park, which was said to be in danger of closing for months, will revert to the A.J. and Nona Triggs Hodges Foundation effective Oct. 1, according to a notice posted on the park's page through the Louisiana State Parks website.

"The Office of State Parks is not aware of future plans for the property," the notice continues. "Thank you to all the guests that have visited the park over the last 10 years."

The three-lined note comes after the Friends of Hodges Gardens State Park group and the nearby town of Many rallied the community to help "keep Hodges Gardens State Park from closing."

As full funding was not appropriated by the Legislature for the current fiscal year, Louisiana Office of State Parks Public Information Officer Sharon Broussard said, "a compromise agreement between the ... foundation and third-party agencies was unable to be reached in a timely manner."

"So, we are unable to continue operations of the park," Broussard said in an email Wednesday.

And the property in Florien is to be reverted to the control of the nonprofit foundation come Oct. 1.

Charlie Weems, an Alexandria attorney who represents the foundation, said he thinks the state did all it could.

"It's just a casualty of the funding crisis," Weems said.

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Those in the effort to "save" the state park are not happy.

"Friends is sad to report that the Office of State Parks has failed to uphold its contractual obligation to sufficiently fund and continuously operate Hodges Gardens," according to its Facebook page.

The Facebook post has more than 90 comments and hundreds of shares. Some blame the foundation for not keeping up the park before the Office of State Parks became an operator.

But not everyone agrees. Some say this is good news and that the foundation did a better job than the state when it came to running and maintaining Hodges Gardens.

Most just want to know what will happen to the park and if it will remain open to the public.

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"I think everybody in the family wants to find a way to keep the gardens open," Will Hodges, president of the foundation board, said Thursday. "That is our passion and our desire."

He grew up going to the park his great-grandfather built as did his cousins and extended family, he said.

But commenting on what's next for the park would be premature, Hodges said. The foundation still is in discussions with the state, so he wants to wait until the property officially comes back.

Then they'll need an assessment of the property to see what needs to be done and what's feasible, and he wants to meet with the Friends group and others who are passionate about the park, he said.

"Then we can start looking for a path forward," Hodges said.

He wants to squash rumors that there will be real estate development on the property.

"That's 100 percent false," he said. "... That would really fly in the face and undermine everything my great-grandfather built it for."