Bring along a field guide and a pair of boots and join a team of researchers to jot down every critter you see on your path. Participate in a Bio Blitz.Every year, BREC hosts events in the wilder parts of the parish to document our unique biodiversity. Play everything from baseball to rugby to disc golf, or head to the observatory to look at the stars. Enjoy 144 acres of rolling greenery at Highland Road Community Park. Learn all about Louisiana’s native trees and shrubs at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum. The Highland Road facility-perfect for a stroll among shady trees you may not realize call Louisiana home-is free and open seven days a week.ĥ.

Bird watch at the Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center. Grab a pair of binoculars and try to spot barred owls and red-bellied woodpeckers. Head to Scott’s Bluff at Southern University for the best sunsets. Legend has it this is where the famous “red stick”-from which Baton Rouge got its name-was found.ģ.

Strap on some rock-climbing gear and scale the wall like a pro.

Get a taste of extreme sports at Perkins Road Community Park.Ĭatch some air in the BREC park’s skate park or the BMX raceway (or just watch as the fearless bikers and skaters soar overhead). We may not have mountains, but there are still plenty of spaces to hike, bike, run and climb-all within city limitsīy Kayla Randall Perkins Road Community Park. Here are a couple hundred to get you started. Because in 2018, there are way more than 225 things to do in Baton Rouge. Nearly everything on this list is within the parish or just across the parish line. We’re proud to say we did not need to include any road trips this time around.

Red button ice cream lins cedar city