Creole Nature Trail

Creole Nature Trail
Length	180 mi (290 km)
Location	Louisiana, United States

The Creole Nature Trail, part of Louisiana's Outback, is an All-American Road comprising more than 180 miles (290 km) of highway including portions of Louisiana state highways 14, 82, 27, 384, and 385 in southwest Louisiana. The Creole Nature Trail was one of the first National Scenic Byways designated by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Along this distinctive series of highways a wide variety of world-famous wildlife including alligators, birds, butterflies, and fish are found.

The trail includes several National Wildlife Refuges and nature reserves: Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge, Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge, Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, Peveto Woods Bird & Butterfly Sanctuary in Johnson Bayou, and Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge near Grand Chenier. Most of the sights are located in Cameron and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

Following Hurricane Rita a number of the facilities especially in Sabine National Wildlife Refuge are closed to the public as of February 2007 and presently in a state of recovery.

Creole Nature Trail sign.

Observable Bird Species	Spring	Summer	Fall	Winter
Common loon	occasional		occasional	occasional
Pied-billed grebe	common	uncommon	common	common
Eared grebe	rare		rare	rare
Horned grebe	rare		rare	rare
American white pelican	common	occasional	common	common
Brown pelican	occasional	occasional	occasional	occasional
Magnificent frigatebird		rare	rare
Anhinga	uncommon	uncommon	uncommon	occasional
Double-crested cormorant	occasional	common	common
Neotropic cormorant	abundant	abundant	abundant	abundant
American bittern	uncommon	rare	uncommon	uncommon
Least bittern	common	common	common	rare
Great blue heron	common	common	common	common
Great egret	common	common	common	common
Snowy egret	common	common	common	common
Reddish egret	rare	rare	rare	rare
Little blue heron	common	common	common	uncommon
Tricolored heron	common	common	common	uncommon
Cattle egret	abundant	abundant	abundant	abundant
Green heron	abundant	abundant	common	occasional
Black-crowned night heron	common	common	common	uncommon
Yellow-crowned night heron	common	common	occasional	rare
Glossy ibis	occasional	occasional	occasional	occasional
White-faced ibis	abundant	abundant	common	common
American white ibis	abundant	abundant	common	common
Roseate spoonbill	common	common	uncommon	uncommon
Wood stork		occasional	occasional
Greater white-fronted goose	common	rare	abundant	abundant
Ross's goose	rare		occasional	occasional
Snow goose	abundant	rare	abundant	abundant
Canada goose	occasional	occasional	occasional	occasional
Fulvous whistling-duck	common	uncommon	common	occasional
Black-bellied whistling duck	uncommon	uncommon	occasional	rare
Wood duck	uncommon	uncommon	uncommon	uncommon
Mallard	common	rare	abundant	abundant
American black duck	rare		rare	rare
Mottled duck	common	common	common	common

External links

Creole Nature Trail

Protected areas of Louisiana

Federal

National Historical Parks	Cane River Creole Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve New Orleans Jazz

National Monuments	Poverty Point

National Marine Sanctuary	Flower Garden Banks

National Forests	Kisatchie

National Wildlife Refuge System	Atchafalaya Bayou Cocodrie Bayou Sauvage Bayou Teche Big Branch Marsh Black Bayou Lake Bogue Chitto Breton Cameron Prairie Cat Island Catahoula D'Arbonne Delta East Cove Grand Cote Handy Brake Lacassine Lake Ophelia Mandalay Red River Shell Keys Sabine Tensas River Upper Ouachita

State

State Parks	Bayou Segnette Bogue Chitto Chemin-A-Haut Chicot Cypremort Point Fairview-Riverside Fontainebleau Grand Isle Hodges Gardens Jimmie Davis Lake Bistineau Lake Bruin Lake Claiborne Lake D-Arbonne Lake Fausse Pointe North Toledo Bend Palmetto Island Poverty Point Reservoir St. Bernard Sam Houston Jones South Toledo Bend Tickfaw

State Historic Sites	Audubon Centenary Fort Jesup Fort Pike Fort St. Jean Baptiste Forts Randolph & Buhlow Locust Grove Longfellow-Evangeline Los Adaes Mansfield Marksville Plaquemine Lock Port Hudson Poverty Point Rebel State Rosedown Plantation Winter Quarters

State Preservation Area	Louisiana State Arboretum

State Forests	Alexander Indian Creek

State Wildlife Refuges	Elmer's Island Marsh Island Rockefeller St. Tammany State Terrebonne Barrier Islands White Lake Wetlands

Wildlife management areas	Acadiana Conservation Corridor Atchafalaya Delta Attakapas Barataria Preserve Bayou Macon Bayou Pierre Ben's Creek Big Colewa Bayou Big Lake Biloxi Bodcau Boeuf Bonnet Carré Spillway Buckhorn Camp Beauregard Catahoula Lake Clear Creek Dewey Wills Elbow Slough Elm Hall Floy Ward McElroy Fort Polk Grassy Lake Hutchinson Creek Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh Bayou Maurepas Swamp Old River Control Ouachita Pass A Loutre Pearl River Peason Ridge Pointe-aux-Chenes Pomme de Terre Red River Russell Sage Sabine Island Sabine Salvador/Timken Sandy Hollow Sherburne Sicily Island Hills Soda Lake Spring Bayou Tangipahoa Parish School Board Thistlethwaite Three Rivers Tunica Hills Union Walnut Hill West Bay

Other

Private	Bird City Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary

Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism (web)
Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry (web)
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (web)

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Creole Nature Trail

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