Refuge Regulations
Regulations have been established to protect refuge resources and to provide for visitor safety. While not a fully comprehensive list, the following items or activities are PROHIBITED on the refuge:
- Alcoholic beverages
- Camping
- Collecting, disturbing, or feeding wildlife
- Collecting, cutting, or disturbing plants
- Collecting or removing beached lobster pots or buoys
- Collecting, digging, or removing sand, dirt, earth, etc., or any other inorganic materials (human-generated litter excepted)
- Disturbing, collecting, or removing archaeological or other cultural resources
- Dogs, horses, and other domestic animals (seeing eye dogs and others that assist the physically impaired excepted)
- Fires (including charcoal grills, gas stoves, etc.)
- Fireworks
- Geocaching
- 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
- Releasing wild or domestic animals
- Roller-blading, roller-skating, roller-skiing, and skateboarding
- Snowmobiling
- Tenting
- Use of lights (including vehicle headlights) to locate wildlife
- Surfing, kite-surfing, kite-boarding
Furthermore,
- To reduce disturbance to wildlife and for visitor safety, public use is restricted to designated areas. All other areas, including the dunes, are closed.
- Refuge visitors wishing to possess firearms must comply with all related State laws. Firearms are not allowed in any refuge building, including the visitor center, headquarters, visitor contact station, gatehouse, and all restrooms. Hunters should contact refuge headquarters for specific restrictions and/or exceptions.
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