Bon Secour /bɑːn səˈkjuːr/ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States.

The name "Bon Secour" derives from the French phrase meaning "safe harbor" due to the secluded location on the inside coast of the Fort Morgan peninsula of southern Alabama.

Named by Jacques Cook, a French Canadian from Montreal, a member of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's colonizing expedition of 1699.

Large shrimp boats line the shores of the Bon Secour River, docked at processing plants for packaging and shipment to all of America.

As a result, the local shimpers, along with shrimpers out of the Mobile area have formed an alliance, increased their marketing, public relations knowledge and efforts to brand Alabama, Wild Caught Shrimp.

[citation needed] Bon Secour is characterized by a coastal, Southern Gothic scenery with huge water oak trees covered in Spanish moss, great blue herons, brown pelicans, ever present bottle-nosed dolphin pods and the potent smell of salty gulf waters everywhere.

[citation needed] Homes in the Bon Secour area are some of the oldest along the eastern Alabama Gulf Coast.

[citation needed] Many seabirds, tree frogs and other natural fauna still live in the area of the pristine environment that is Bon Secour.

[4][5] The town has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.7 km2), all land,[5] although it lies along the Bon Secour River and bay.

[23][22] Bon Secour is served by the Baldwin County Public Schools system, in the nearby town of Foley.

The refuge was established by the United States Congress in 1980 to provide habitat for non-game birds migrating south in the fall and north in the spring.

The migration paths from Bon Secour lead south to lower Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America.