Admission: Free.
Hours of Operation: Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 – 5:00.
There are limited facilities at this location.
An excellent place to stop if this is your first trip to the refuge (located on Highway 17). They offer trail maps and ferry schedules.
This is a recovery area for the red wolf, there is an enclosure behind the building where you can view some of the animals. Birding is good year-round.
Black-crowned Night-heron, Tricolored Heron, Little Blue Heron, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Mottled Duck, American Oystercatcher, Common Ground-Dove, Loggerhead Shrike, Seaside Sparrow.
Anhinga, Least Bittern, Reddish Egret, Yellow-crowned Night-heron, Glossy Ibis, Roseate Spoonbill, Swallow-tailed Kite, Mississippi Kite, Wilson’s Plover, Sandwich Tern, Least Tern, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Summer Tanager, Blue Grosbeak, Painted Bunting.
Red-throated Loon, Common Loon, Horned Grebe, Northern Gannet, American Bittern, Tundra Swan, American Black Duck, Northern Pintail, Canvasback, Redhead Scaup, Greater Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Long-tailed Duck, Black Scooter, White-winged Scooter, Surf Scooter, Hooded Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Bald Eagle, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Piping Plover, Whimbrel, Long-billed Curlew, Red Knot, Purple Sandpiper, Bonaparte’s Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Orange-crowned Warbler, Saltmarsh Sparrow, Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow.