Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge

Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address: 114 W Water St
Windsor, NC 27983
Phone: 252-794-3808;
Web: www.fws.gov/roanokeriver
Established: 1989.
Location: Northeastern North Carolina.
Facilities: Visitor contact station, hiking trails.
Activities: Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting, hiking, educational programs.
Special Features: Refuge consists of five different tracts of land along 70 miles of the Roanoke River and two distant satellite tracts in other river basins.
Habitats: 17,500 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and cypress-tupelo sloughs, and black and brown water streams.
Access: Open during daylight hours year round.
Wild life: Raptors, osprey, and neo-tropical migrants, herons, bald eagle, shortnose sturgeon, wild turkey, and black bear.

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