Reimagining your Greenwood Park and Baton Rouge Zoo
Greenwood Community Park is the largest park in the BREC system, spanning 660 acres. Almost half of this beautiful park includes pristine forests, representative of south Louisiana’s upland and lowland forest habitat serving a critical link in a larger context that connects the Comite and Mississippi Rivers. This is part of a migratory bird corridor – the Mississippi Flyway. These natural areas stitch together fragmented habitats, improving the viability of animal and plant species and reducing threats to biodiversity.
Currently, the park is seen not as one facility but rather as four separate destinations – Greenwood Community Park, the Baton Rouge Zoo, Dumas Memorial Golf Course and J.S. Clark Golf Course and park. BREC’s vision is to change this perception by creating a unified destination that entices visitors into the heart of the property and reveals a grand gateway to a new, modernized Zoo. This ambitious project has been designed and planned to make an extraordinary contribution to the quality of life, health and wellness not only of the zoo’s collections, but for the Baton Rouge community at large. It will be a catalytic agent for the economic transformation of the surrounding area and entire parish.
IMPLEMENTING THE
VISION
The master plans for the park and zoo are the culmination of over nine months of intense community and stakeholder engagement during 2019 that included conversations about both the future of the Baton Rouge Zoo and Greenwood Park. The planning process built off earlier work by BREC and community stakeholders, leading to a decision to keep the Zoo in its current location. Now, BREC is realizing this vision by implementing an ambitious Phase 1 which will break ground at the end of 2020.
IMPLEMENTING THE
VISION
The master plans for the park and zoo are the culmination of over nine months of intense community and stakeholder engagement during 2019 that included conversations about both the future of the Baton Rouge Zoo and Greenwood Park. The planning process built off earlier work by BREC and community stakeholders, leading to a decision to keep the Zoo in its current location. Now, BREC is realizing this vision by implementing an ambitious Phase 1 which will break ground at the end of 2020.
MASTER PLAN PROCESS
Building off of the remarkable community support that happened through an extensive public engagement process, BREC is excited to take the first step on Phase One improvements which will be opened in early 2022. This will include transformational elements of the zoo entry and park core that will make this a true regional destination. Additional exciting park and zoo improvements will happen over time as funds become available and aspects of the design are advanced.
MASTER PLAN PROCESS
Building off of the remarkable community support that happened through an extensive public engagement process BREC is excited to take the first step on Phase