Creole Nature Trail
Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, LA

The Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge is located along the Gulf Coast in eastern Cameron Parish on land donated to the state by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920. Managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, the refuge originally encompassed 86,000 acres of wilderness. Erosion, however, has taken a significant toll, and the most recent surveys indicate that less than 76,000 acres remain.

This state wildlife refuge plays host to hundreds of thousands of ducks, geese, coots, and numerous wading birds each year. It also serves as a resting area for many of the transient birds that winter in Central and South America. Year round residents such as nutria, muskrat, raccoon, otter and alligator, are in good numbers in the area.

Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge is one of the most biologically diverse wildlife areas in the nation, and has the distinction of having the highest alligator nesting densities of any place in the United States.