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.