Hillside National Wildlife Refuge

Hillside National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address: 1562 Providence Rd
Cruger, MS 38924
Phone: 662-235-4989;
Web: www.fws.gov/hillside
Established: 1975.
Location: 13 miles north of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Facilities: Viewing sites, hiking trails (é).
Activities: Fishing, hunting, educational programs.
Special Features: The refuge provides important stop-over and nesting habitat for neotropical migratory birds as one of the larger forested tracts in the Mississippi Delta.
Habitats: 15,572 acres of bottomland hardwoods, cypress sloughs, early successional reforested areas, croplands, ponds, and streams.
Access: Year round during daylight hours.
Wild life: Waterfowl and other migratory birds, including hooded mergansers, killdeer, snipe, sandpipers, yellowlegs, white-tailed deer, squirrel, rabbit, and American alligator.

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