There are parking lots on both sides of the road. The Houston Audubon Society owns several sanctuaries on High Island. The two most visited ones are Boy Scout Woods and Smith Oaks. These sanctuaries are famous for the large number of migrating birds that stop there in the spring after their long flight across the Gulf of Mexico. Migrants may also be found there in the fall.
Admission is charged.
Woods, fields, ponds, and freshwater marshes. Picnic tables and boardwalks are in both sanctuaries. Sanctuary is on the right in the middle of the long block. Watch for signs and parking lot. Continue on Rt 124 through High Island to Weeks St. Watch for the signs to Birders' Haven and Smith Oaks.