Complete Zachary Taylor Parkway Guide

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Stretching nearly 150 miles eastward through the “boot” of Southeastern
Louisiana, the Zachary Taylor Parkway leg of the America’s Wetland Birding
Trail encompasses almost every major habitat type native to the state.
At its western end, within the Tunica-Biloxi Loop, the trail slogs through
the low bottomland hardwoods and cypress-tupelo swamps of the lower
Mississippi River floodplain. Further east, the Audubon Loop climbs into
the prominent upland hardwood blufflands of the Mississippi River’s east
bank. This is the only region of the state where the Eastern chipmunk
and American ginseng live and grow and represents the southernmost
extensions of these two species’ North American distribution ranges.
Finally, the trail meanders higher up into the dry, 300+ foot pineland ridges
near its boundary with Southern Mississippi.
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Traveling along the Creole Nature Trail All-American Road and six
additional state scenic byways, the America’s Wetland Birding Trail crosses
through 22 South Louisiana parishes rich in unparalleled history, culture,
arts and entertainment. The trail will guide you to some of the state’s most
productive natural places along the Great Gulf Coast and will offer ready
access to some of the best birding in the country.
The America’s Wetland Birding Trail consists of 115 bird watching sites
crossing through 22 Louisiana parishes.
The Zachary Taylor Parkway Birding Trail consists of 27 bird watching
sites in 10 Louisiana parishes.
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The Red River Birding Trail consists of 82 bird watching sites in 18
Louisiana parishes.
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The Mississippi River Birding Trail consists of 30 bird watching sites in 13
Louisiana parishes.
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Sparsely populated and heavily cultivated in cotton, corn, and soybeans,
the Northeast Louisiana Delta has served as one of the last homes for
the ivory-billed woodpecker and Louisiana black bear. Agriculture
and hardwood timbering fragmented this once contiguous mosaic of
bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp habitats, virtually
exterminating both the woodpecker and the bear. The ivory-billed
woodpecker may be lost forever, but the Louisiana black bear is making an
impressive comeback, thanks to an intensive wildlife conservation program
initiated by both federal and state wildlife agencies. To date, hundreds
of thousands of acres of abandoned farmland in this region have been
purchased and restored to their former forested glory.
Long storied throughout
American history for its role in
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U.S. “Wild West” culture, the
Red River changes character
considerably as it enters
Louisiana. Red clay bluffs,
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vast pine forests, and pileated
woodpeckers replace the
rocks, bison, and rattlesnakes
of the river’s upper reaches
in the Southern Great Plains.
Geologically, the Red River
neatly bisects a large “shield”
of exposed, high-elevation
tertiary outcroppings, which
form the entire northwestern
quadrant of the state. This tertiary shield supports many of Louisiana’s
rarest plants. To this day, the Louisiana segment of the Red River Valley is
best known for its timber resources, and interest in its mixed-pine forests
culminated in the formation of the 600,000-acre Kisatchie National Forest
system. Most of the forest’s districts lay along the Red River Trail.
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For complete information on America’s Wetland Birding Trails visit
LouisianaTravel.com or
http://louisianatravel.com/explore/louisiana_birding_trails.cfm
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Welcome to the Zachary Taylor Parkway leg of
Louisiana’s Birding Trail! This is one of a series of four
driving routes through Louisiana that focus on the state’s
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17 Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
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27 Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge
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20 Camp Moore Confederate Museum & Cemetery
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21 Sandy
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24 Bogue
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Stretching nearly 150 miles eastward through the “boot”
of Southeastern Louisiana, the Zachary Taylor Parkway
segment of the America’s WETLAND Birding Trail includes
almost every major habitat type native to the state. At
its western end, within the Tunica-Biloxi Loop, the trail
meanders through the low bottomland hardwoods and
cypress-tupelo swamps of the lower Mississippi River
floodplain. Further east, the Audubon Loop climbs into the
prominent upland hardwood blufflands of the Mississippi
River’s east bank. This is the only region of the state where
the Eastern chipmunk and American ginseng live and
grow, representing the southernmost extensions of these
two species’ North American distribution ranges. Finally,
the trail climbs higher up into the dry, 300-foot pineland
ridges near its boundary with Southern Mississippi.
While you’re here, we hope you’ll find time to put down
your binoculars and enjoy everything else our state has to
offer—our unique music, cuisine, art and history. Please
visit
www.LouisianaTravel.com
for
helpful
travel
information.
Happy Birding,
Information
Canoeing
Picnic Area
Driving Trail
Restrooms
Boat Access
Hiking
Viewing Area
Handicapped Access
Fishing
Swimming
Lookout Tower
Food
Camping
Beach Area
Biking
Parking
Cabins/Lodge
Visitor
Water
LOOP 1
Colonial Trails
Scenic Byway
Site 3:
Grand Cote National Wildlife Refuge/
Central Louisiana National Wildlife Refuge
outdoor aquaculture classroom, boardwalk,
observation platform
Address: 401 Island Rd., Marksville, LA 71351
Access: Office Mon-Fri 7:30am-4pm; Trail daily; Free
GPS Coordinates: N 31.10967; W 92.13764
Contact: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Central LA Wildlife
Refuges Headquarters, 318-253-4238
Website: www.fws.gov/grandcote
Site 1:
Marksville State
Historic Site
Site 4:
Echo-Cheneyville Road
exhibits, interpretive programs
Address: No physical address
Address:
Access: Daily; Free
837 Martin Luther King Dr., Marksville, LA 71351
Limitations: Traffic area with few pull-offs
Access: Daily 9am-5pm, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year’s Day; Free
Contact: Site Manager, 318-253-8954 or 888-253-8954
Website: www.lastateparks.com
Site 5:
J.H. Over ton Recreation Area
Address: 766 LA Hwy. 454, Pineview, LA 71360
Access: Daily; Free
Site 2:
Spring Bayou State Wildlife
Management Area
Contact: Red River Waterway Commission, 800-874-9431
Website: www.redriverwaterway.com, or www.mvk.usace.
army.mil/lakes/JBennettWaterway/
Address: 2628 Spring Bayou Rd., Marksville, LA 71351
Access: Daily; Free. Valid LA hunting or fishing license or
Wild LA Stamp required unless exempt by law
Contact: LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, WMA
Manager, 318-948-0255
Website: www.wlf.louisiana.gov/hunting/wmas/wmas/list.
cfm?wmaid=48
main.php?page=mapsContent
Site 8:
Lake Ophelia National Wildlife Refuge
ATV trails
Address: 642 Lake Long Rd., Marksville, LA 71351
Access: Daily; Free
Limitations: Roadways can be problematic in wet weather
Contact: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Refuge Manager,
318-253-4238
Website: www.fws.gov/lakeophelia/
Site 9:
Grassy Lake Wildlife Management Area
Address: 3081 Grassy Lake Rd., Bordelonville, LA 71320
Site 6:
Ben Routh Recreation Area
observation deck
Access: Daily; Free; Valid LA hunting or fishing license or
Wild LA Stamp required unless exempt by law, self-clearing
permit required
Address: 156 Ben Routh Rd., Effie, LA 71331
Contact: LA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Region 6
Access: Daily; Free
Office, 337-948-0255
Website: www.wlf.louisiana.gov
Contact: Red River Waterway Commission, 800-874-9431
Website: www.redriverwaterway.com or
www.mvk.usace.army.mil/lakes/JBennettWaterway/main.
php?page=mapsContent
Site 7:
Lindy C. Boggs Recreation Area/Lock
& Dam No. 1
Address: 3543 Vick Rd., Vick, LA 71331
Access: Daily; Free
Website: www.redriverwaterway.com or
www.mvk.usace.army.mil/lakes/JBennettWaterway
Site 10:
Morganza Spillway
Address: 2084 LA Hwy. 1, Morganza, LA 70759
Access: Daily; Free
Contact: Pointe Coupée Office of Tourism, 225-638-3998
Site 11:
Sherburne Wildlife Management Area
Site 13:
Centenary State Historic Site
Address: 5652 Hwy. 182, Opelousas, LA 70571
Address: 3522 College St., Jackson, LA 70748
Access: Daily 9am-5pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas
Wild LA Stamp required, unless exempt by law
and New Year’s Day; Admission Fee
Contact: Sherburne Complex Information, 337-948-0255
Contact: Centenary State Historic Site Information,
Website: www.wlf.state.la.us
888-677-2364
LOOP 2
Louisiana Scenic
Bayou Byway
Site 14:
Mary Ann Brown
Preserve
pavilion, pond house
Address: 13515 Hwy. 965,
St. Francisville, LA 70775
Access: Daily; Free
Site 12:
Tunica Hills Wildlife Management Area
Contact: Nature Conservancy of Louisiana, 225-338-1040
Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/
states/louisiana/preserves, or www.stfrancisville.us
Limitations: Roadway could be problematic in wet weather
Site 15:
Audubon State Historic Site
Contact: LA Department of Wildlife & Fisheries, Region 7
Address: 11788 Hwy. 965, St. Francisville, LA 70775
Office, 225-765-2360
Access: Daily 9am-5pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas,
and New Year’s Day; Admission Fee
Contact: Site Manager, 225-635-3739 or 888-677-2838
Site 16:
Port Hudson State Historic Site
Limitations: Roadways can be problematic in wet weather
Contact: West Feliciana Parish Recreational and Sports Park,
Access: Daily 9am-5pm; Fee
225-784-8447
Website: www.stfrancisville.us
Contact: Port Hudson State Historic Site, 888-677-3400
LOOP 3
Site 17:
Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site
Address: 12501 Hwy. 10, St. Francisville, LA 70775
Access: Daily 9am-5pm except Thanksgiving, Christmas and
New Year’s Day; Admission Fee
Louisiana Scenic
Bayou Byway
Contact: Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site,
225-635-3332
Site 18:
Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge
Site 20:
Camp Moore Confederate
Museum & Cemetery
museum, gift shop
Address: 70640 Camp Moore Rd., Tangipahoa, LA 70465
Access: Tues-Sat 10am-3pm; Admission Fee
Address: 76 Pintail Ln., Natchez, MS 39120
Contact: Camp Moore Confederate Museum & Cemetery,
Access: Daily; Free
985-229-2438
Website: www.campmoore.com
Contact: Refuge Manager, 225-635-4753
Website: www.southeast.fws.gov/CatIsland
Site 19:
West Feliciana Parish
ball fields, tennis courts, playgrounds
Address: 10226 West Feliciana Pkwy., St. Francisville,
LA 70775
Access: Mon-Fri 7am-dark, Sat-Sun 8am-dark; Free
Site 21:
Sandy Hollow Wildlife Management Area
Address: 98004 Oilfield Rd., Kentwood, LA 70444
Contact: LA Department of Wildlife & Fisheries,
Region 7 Office, 225-765-2360
Site 22:
Ben’s Creek Wildlife Management Area
Site 25:
Pearl River Wildlife
Management Area
Address: 603 Willis,
Wild LA Stamp required, unless exempt by law, self-clearing
Bogalusa, LA 70427
permit required
Access: Daily; Free; Valid LA
hunting or fishing license or
Contact: LA Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Region 7
Office, 225-765-2360
Contact: Pearl River WMA Headquarters, 985-646-6440
Website: www.wlf.state.la.us
Site 23:
Cassidy Park
tennis courts, barnyard display, playground
Site 26:
Abita Creek Flatwoods Preserve
boardwalk, benches, interpretive stations
Access: Daily; Free
Access: Daily; Free
Contact: City of Bogalusa, 985-732-6211
Contact: The Nature Conservancy (Florida Parishes),
985-809-1414
Site 24:
Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge
Website: www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/
states/louisiana/preserves
Address:
No physical address
Access: Daily; Free
Limitations: The area
Site 27:
Lake Ramsay Preserve
interpretive displays
is closed when the river
gauge at Pearl River
Access: Daily; Free (The adjacent Lake Ramsay WMA
reaches 15.5 feet.
requires a valid hunting or fishing or Wild LA Stamp and
GPS Coordinates:
self-clearing permit.)
N 30.45115; W 89.70822
Contact: U.S. Fish and
Contact: The Nature Conservancy (Florida Parishes),
Wildlife Service, Southeast
985-809-1414
LA Refuges Headquarters,
985-882-2000
Website: www.fws.gov/boguechitto
America’s Wetland
America’s WETLAND is one of the largest and most productive
expanses of coastal wetlands in North America. This valuable
landscape extending along Louisiana’s coast is disappearing at
a rate of 25 square miles per year. This unique ecosystem is the
natural nursery ground for much of the country’s seafood, with
95% of all marine life in the Gulf of Mexico spending all or part
of its life cycle in these coastal wetlands. America’s WETLAND
is the wintering habitat for more than 10 million waterfowl and
migratory birds in the Mississippi Flyway and Central Flyway.
As the wetlands disappear, habitat is lost, threatening national
refuges and putting at risk numerous rare, threatened and
endangered species.
The America’s WETLAND Birding Trails will help visitors explore
some of Louisiana’s most treasured natural places along the
coast and expose them to some of the best birding in the
country through the numerous State Parks, State Historic Sites,
State Preservation Areas, National Wildlife Refuges, Wildlife
Management Areas, and other natural spots throughout the
state. In addition to exceptional birds and other wildlife, America’s
WETLAND Birding Trails also allow visitors to experience some
of the state’s unique history and culture. To learn more about
America’s WETLAND please visit www.americaswetland.com.

Complete Zachary Taylor Parkway Guide

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