Hillside National Wildlife Refuge

Hillside NWR ‘diverse habitats support hundreds of wildlife species. The  dominant habitats are hardwood forest bottomlands with oaks and cottonwood trees in the higher elevations, and willow, bald cypress and tupelo sloughs or “brakes” in lower elevations. The Alligator Slough Nature Trail is a 0.6 mile accessible nature trail that  “meanders through a bottomland hardwood forest with a bald cypress and water tupelo slough accessed from the South Levee Road. “