Field Trips!

If you're looking for a free and fun experience, come to the Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge for a field trip! Walk trails and learn about our local plants and animals in the spring or fall, or bring your bus for an educational tour of our refuge anytime during the year. Children will gain a better understanding of the natural environment that they are a part of.

Twenty-five sets of binoculars are available for children to use for refuge field trips. Twenty-five Discovery Backpacks are also available for checkout at the refuge or for classroom activites (Please call and reserve backpacks for large groups).

Before children come to the Reelfoot NWR, please have parents fill out our Agreement for Use of Images and Liknessess in Service Products form and have them ready to give to a refuge official by arrival.

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If you're on a tight budget, give Park Ranger Tara Dowdy a call and the refuge can come to you! Through outdoor activites, short films, powerpoints, art, and seeing a few live critters up close, children and teachers will enjoy learning about the rich, diverse refuges of West Tennessee.

Various programs over the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Reelfoot,Chickasaw and Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuges, wetlands, wildlife (eg: nocturnal animals, snakes, frogs, mammals, etc.), food webs, animal skulls, etc. are availalbe to any school in Obion, Lake, Weakley, Dyer and Lauderdale counties. Interactive programs are also available, such as making animals tracks, stream ecology, owl pellet dissection, etc. If there is a specific environmental education topic needed, we can create one to fit your cirriculum needs.