Fish and Wildlife Service - Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge

Hunting at Salt Plains

Deer hunts are administered in cooperation with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Deer hunters are drawn by ODWC. For details about applications or to find out if you were drawn. Visit the ODWC's controlled hunting website at http://www.wildlifedepartment.com/controlhunt.htm

Pheasant, Quail, Dove, Ducks, Geese and Sandhill crane hunting is permitted on designated areas (see map with regulation download).

There are 4 parking areas along the north side of Hwy 11. They are marked by signs indicating Parking Lot A, B, C or D. Park in designated parking areas only. Before going into the hunting units, you must fill out a hunter registration form at the "Refuge Regulations" board. Take the form off of the nail, fill out right side of the card and drop it into the specified box.

Keep the other side of the form with you at all times, keeping track of the species harvested. At the end of your hunt, drop the rest of the registration card into the box before leaving the refuge. Download the Hunting Regs and Parking Areas Map

Pheasant, Quail, Dove, Ducks, Geese and Sandhill crane hunting is permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions (all state hunting regulations apply in addition to refuge regulations):

* Areas are closed at noon
* Legal shooting hours are from one-half hour before sunrise until noon. No afternoon hunting.
* All parties must sign in.
* Hunters are to log in and out daily.
* All minors must be accompanied by an adult.
* Hunting is restricted to the area bounded by the refuge boundary to the west and north, the western boundary of units A and B on the east and 150 yards north of State Hwy 11 on the south. The 150 yards north of State Hwy 11 is a retrieval zone only.
* No rifles or handguns allowed in the hunt area.
* Federally approved nontoxic shot only. Hunters cannot be in possession of shot shells loaded with shot other than Federally approved nontoxic shot while in the hunting area.
* Decoys and materials brought into the refuge for blind construction must be removed at the end of each day's hunt.
* All vehicles must be parked in designated refuge-access parking areas.
* All hunting closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday during state rifle deer season.

Last updated: August 28, 2007