Mingo National Wildlife Refuge

Mingo National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife Refuges

Address:24729 State Hwy 51
Puxico, MO 63960
Phone:573-222-3589
Web: midwest.fws.gov/Mingo
Established: 1945.
Location:25 miles northeast of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Facilities:Visitor center, picnic areas, boat launch, auto tour route, trails, boardwalk, observation tower.
Activities:Boating, fishing, hiking, hunting, horseback riding, educational programs, collection of berries, nuts, pokeweed and mushrooms.
Special Features:Refuge preserves the only remaining tract of native bottomland forest in the boothill of Missouri, which once covered 2.5 million acres. The tract was spared because draining Mingo Swamp proved too difficult for early 20th century technology.
Habitats: 21,676 acres of mostly hardwood bottomland swamp.
Access: Daylight hours year round.
Wild life: Ducks, geese, eagles, hawks, turkey, opossums, shrews, bats, deer, salamanders, frogs and turtles.

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