Rockefeller State Wildlife Refuge

Location: On LA 82, 31 miles east of Oak Grove

Size: Approx. 74,000 acres

Alligators All Around!
Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge boasts the highest alligator nesting densities in the United States. Worldwide, much of what we know about alligators  — from alligator ranching to physiology and life history — comes from research performed at Rockefeller SWR. Rockefeller staff researchers regulate the annual Louisiana alligator harvest.

Price Lake Nature Drive (Temporarily closed for construction...please check back for updates!)
A five-mile drive into Rockefeller Refuge offers an excellent opportunity to experience this remarkable habitat. Along the way, you can stop to observe birds and animals.

Birder Alert
Rockefeller SWR is located on the terminus of the vast Mississippi Flyway, wintering as many as 160,000 waterfowl — ducks, geese, and coots. Numerous shorebirds and wading birds migrate through or winter in Rockefeller SWR. Neotropical migrant passerines use the shrubs and trees on levees and other "upland" areas of the refuge as a rest stop on their trans-Gulf journeys to and from Central and South America. A resident flock of giant Canada geese was established in the early 1960s.

Four-Footed Friends
Rockefeller SWR’s resident animals include nutria, muskrat, rails, raccoon, mink, otter, opossum and white-tailed deer. No hunting is allowed on the refuge, but some regulated trapping is permitted for furbearers that could potentially damage the marsh if their populations are not controlled.

Finely-Finned and Shapely-Shelled
Bring your rod, your net and a pail! An abundant fish population provides recreational opportunities for visitors seeking shrimp and crab, redfish, speckled trout, black drum, and largemouth bass.

Activities
• Shrimping and crabbing
• Boat launches and recreational fishing
• Bird and wildlife observation
• Nature photography