FAQs • Caddo Parish, LA • CivicEngage

Does the nature park staff pick up injured animals?: The nature park staff are permitted to care for injured vertebrates, but cannot pick up animals. The Caddo Parish Animal Control Department picks up injured animals and will transport them to the nature park if necessary.
Caddo Parish Animal Services

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Parks & Recreation

1. What are your parks hours of operation?: All parks, with the exception of Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park and Keithville Community Park, are open to the public from 6 am - 9 pm daily. Boat ramps are open to fishermen 24 hours a day.

2. Do any of the parks charge a fee or admission?: None of the Parish parks charge an admission fee. The Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park does accept donations to feed the park animals. Earl G. Williamson Park charges for overnight camping. RV camper hook-ups $12/night, areas for primitative tent camping $6/night, and a $2 sewage disposal fee for campers not staying overnight in the park.

Parish park sites are available on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Park patrons can request a permit to access the utilities, free of charge, via phone, email, regular mail, or fax (318) 212-0229.

Reservations can be made for nature programs provided by the Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park staff.

The Walter B. Jacobs Nature Park pavilion can also be rented, 4 hours $50.00 and 8 hours $100.00

4. Is hunting allowed in parish parks?: Hunting is not allowed on any Parish park sites.

5. Are there any animals at the parks? If so, what kind?: Several of the Parish parks located on area lakes have native birds, mammals, and other animals that can sometimes be observed in the parks. The Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park has displays of native fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals used in educational programs, in addition to the native wildlife found in the park.

6. What type of trails do the parks have?: Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park, P. B. S. Pinchback Park, Keithville Community Park, Greenbrook Park, and Stoner Hill Park have handicapped accessible asphalt paths. Walter Jacobs Nature Park has more than five miles of hiking trails. Eddie D. Jones Park has more than ten miles of mountain biking trails, five miles of horseback riding trails, and 1 ½ miles of hiking trails. Hiking is permitted on all of the trails in Eddie Jones Park.

7. Do I need a license to fish off the pier at Earl G. Williamson Park?: A La. Fishing license is required to fish in any of the Parish parks that allow fishing. LADWF Fishing Licenses

8. How do I register a boat on Cross Lake?: Contact the Cross Lake Patrol
2900 Municipal Pier Rd.
Shreveport, La. 71119
Phone (318)673-7245

9. Do you offer any summer programs?: The Walter B. Jacobs Memorial Nature Park pavilion serves as the site of a summer Earth Camp each year. The environmental day camp is sponsored jointly by the Parish of Caddo Parks and Recreation Department and Shreveport Green. Questions regarding Earth Camp should be submitted to the director's office. Other summer programs available are listed under special events.

10. Do you offer any type of recreational ball leagues?: The Parish sponsors an adult women's basketball league.

11. Does the nature park staff pick up injured animals?: The nature park staff are permitted to care for injured vertebrates, but cannot pick up animals. The Caddo Parish Animal Control Department picks up injured animals and will transport them to the nature park if necessary.
Caddo Parish Animal Services