Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge
Prime Hook NWR  is some 22 miles southeast of Dover.  It’s10,144 acres of mixed habitat provides “…an important stopover site for migratory birds as they travel up and down the Atlantic Flyway and provides protected breeding habitat for federally and State-listed threatened and endangered species, as well as many neo-tropical migrating bird species. Prime Hook’s habitat features include salt marsh, freshwater marsh, ponds and impoundments, wooded swamps and upland grasslands and forest.”   Here is their website.    Phone 302-684-8419  Brochure  Walking trails map
Wheelchair AccessibleBoardwalk Trail 0.5 mile loop “…meanders through uplands, forested wetlands, and across 600′ of freshwater marsh…”
Wheelchair AccessibleDike Trail  0.5 mile to observation platform overlooking the marsh.