Regulations

The following are incompatible with refuge management objectives and/or are deemed as inappropriate on a national wildlife refuge and are thus PROHIBITED:

• alcoholic beverages
• camping
• collecting, disturbing, or feeding wildlife
• collecting or disturbing plants
• collecting or removing beached lobster pots or buoys
• collecting or removing sand or any other inorganic materials (human-generated litter excepted)
• collecting or removing cultural resources
• dogs, horses, and other domestic animals (seeing eye dogs and others that assist the physically impaired excepted)
• firearms (hunters contact refuge headquarters for exceptions)
• fires (small, contained cooking fires on ocean beach excepted)
• fireworks
• kite flying
• launching or landing watercraft (non-motorized boaters and waterfowl hunters contact refuge headquarters for exceptions)
• metal detector use
• model airplane flying
• nudity
• parking outside designated areas
• pit digging
• releasing wild or domestic animals
• roller-blading, roller-skating, roller-skiing
• skateboarding
• snowmobiling
• tenting
• use of lights (including vehicle headlights) to locate wildlife.

To reduce disturbance to wildlife and for your safety, public use is restricted to designated areas. All other areas, including the dunes, are closed.

Refuge regulations and conditions are subject to change. Please contact refuge headquarters prior to your visit for the most current information.

In addition, the following information sheets are online:

• General refuge information
• Group permit information
• Canoeing/kayaking information
• Waterfowl hunting information
• Surf fishing information
• Shellfishing permit information