The Louisiana Fur & Wildlife Festival is a celebration of Cameron Parish’s costal heritage, industries, and claim to fame as a true Sportsman’s paradise with rides, food, music, pageants, parade, antique car show, 5K run and 1-mile fun walk, kids master oyster races, and an array of outdoor events that include skeet shooting, dog trials, skinning, oyster shucking and trap setting, and duck and goose calling. The festival started its tradition in 1955 to promote its coastal heritage and the different industries that have enabled Cameron to thrive, as well as celebrate our claim to fame as a true Sportsman’s Paradise, where all who attend are exposed to true “southern hospitality.” From the grassroots group of organizers in 1955 came one of the oldest, coldest, and most successful festivals, the Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival, held every second weekend in January. Traditions that started back then continue today. The National Outdoor Show in Dorchester County, Maryland became the sister festival to the Louisiana Fur & Wildlife Festival because of Maryland’s congressman’s challenge to Cameron Parish’s congressman to send a trapper to compete in the national fur skinning competition. The festival attracts many people throughout the festival weekend and has grown to be highlighted on National Geographic’s Geo-Tourism website and recognized as a Southeast Tourism Society Top Twenty Event.