Parker River National Wildlife Refuge

The following items or activities are prohibited:

• 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, propane and gas stoves, etc.)
• Fireworks
• Kite flying
• Launching or landing watercraft (non-motorized boaters and waterfowl hunters contact refuge headquarters for exceptions)
• Metal detector use
• Geocaching
• Nudity
• Parking outside designated areas
• Releasing wild or domestic animals
• Roller-blading, roller-skating, roller-skiing, and skateboarding
• Snowmobiling
• Tenting
• Use of drones, model airplanes and/or other remote-controlled aircraft
• Use of “fat bicycles” on the refuge beach  (All bicycle use is restricted to the refuge road.)
• Use of lights (including vehicle headlights) to locate wildlife
• Surfing, kite-surfing, kite-boarding

Furthermore,

• 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 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, and all restrooms.  Hunters should contact refuge headquarters for specific restrictions and/or exceptions.