Wildlife refuges serve a variety of purposes-conservation, restoration, and resource management which can include hunting, fishing, education, and recreation. Black Bayou has a visitor center, a learning center, a fishing pier, and several trails.
The Prairie Trail across from the visitor center, and the Arboretum Trail at the learning center are both short, concrete trails, fully accessible. The nature trail which links to the pier is a little over a mile long, part boardwalk, part gravel. The nature trail is accessible but the gravel sections require some effort to push along. There’s a little step up where it joins the boardwalk. We had to backtrack at a couple of places because heavy rains had raised the water level and flooded the trail. Use caution on the boardwalk. It doesn’t have a railing or any type of guard along the edges.
The nature center has a few displays about the bayou and is accessible. The learning center has exhibits with live fish and other animals in tanks and is accessible too. The fishing pier has sections with lowered railings so that it’s possible to fish from a wheelchair.
Vans and small RVs can fit in the visitor center parking lot. Large RVs can be parked along the loop road at the learning center or in the larger lot at the pier. Refuge
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