Midwest Region
National Wildlife Refuge System
Visitor Services and Outreach

Most National Wildlife Refuges and Waterfowl Production Areas are open to the public for wildlife-dependent recreation.

National Wildlife Refuges and Waterfowl Production Areas are generally open to the public for a variety of recreational activities.

These lands host 6.5 million visitors that come to watch wildlife, learn through interpretive programs, hunt, fish, or seek simple solitude from everyday life.

Learn more about our National Wildlife Refuge System by downloading some additional fact sheets from the links below. Then find the refuge nearest you with the directory we've provided.

For a national calendar of events on our refuges, visit the Events Page

In response to litigation by The Fund for Animals, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to revise environmental assessments completed for hunting programs on 74 national wildlife refuges.

Nine of those refuges are in the Midwest Region.

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