Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife Reserve · Manteo, North Carolina
A hundred and fifty-two thousand acres of pocosin - a peat wetland peculiar to the south-east - on the mainland Albemarle Peninsula behind the Outer Banks, established in 1984. It is the place the red wolf was returned to the wild: captive-bred animals were released here in 1987, the first attempt anywhere to restore an extinct-in-the-wild carnivore to its range. The wolves are still here, and the population is very small and very precarious.
100 Conservation Way, Manteo, North Carolina, 27954, United States
FREE and open daily, dawn to dusk, year round. The refuge is largely undeveloped - there is no visitor centre on the refuge itself; the office and exhibits are at 100 Conservation Way in Manteo, across the sound on Roanoke Island. RED WOLF HOWLING PROGRAMMES AND GUIDED TOURS RUN SEASONALLY and must be checked and booked ahead - they are not on a fixed year-round schedule.
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