The Honey Island Swamp is well known around the world for both beauty and the legends within. The Honey Island Swamp is one of the least altered river swamps in the country and is also a premier cypress tupelo gum swamp. Here in the Honey Island Swamp we also have the White Kitchen Nature Conservancy Area which is Louisiana's first Nature Preserve . There are also rumors of a man-like creature inhabiting the Swamp which resembles a sasquatch.

The Honey Island Swamp is also home to an "active" Bald Eagle's nest, the American Alligator, the Louisiana Black Bear, deer, herons, owls, egrets, racoons, turtles and many more species of reptiles and mammals.