Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Sunkhaze Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address: 1168 Main St
Old Town, ME 04468
Phone: 207-827-6138;
Fax: 207-827-6099;
Web: www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=53560
Established: 1988.
Location: 15 miles northeast of Bangor, Maine.
Facilities: Visitor contact station, hiking trails.
Activities: Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting, educational programs.
Special Features: Refuge protects habitat used by many species of birds, as well as rare species such as the Tomah Mayfly and the Showy Lady's Slipper.
Habitats: 11,200 acres of wet meadows, shrub thickets, cedar swamps, red and silver maple floodplain forests and open freshwater streams.
Access: Open from dawn to dusk.
Wild life: Frogs, toads, salamanders, neotropical land birds, grassland-nesting birds, marsh birds and American woodcock.

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