Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge · Oceanville, New Jersey
About forty-eight thousand acres of coastal salt marsh, tidal bay and barrier beach strung along the southern New Jersey shore, protecting one of the most important migratory stopovers on the Atlantic Flyway. THE REASON TO COME IS THE WILDLIFE DRIVE AT OAKS — an eight-mile one-way gravel loop along dykes between freshwater impoundments and open marsh that you drive at walking pace with the windows down, and it is one of the great birding roads on the East Coast. THE ATLANTIC CITY SKYLINE STANDS ON THE HORIZON BEHIND THE MARSH, and that juxtaposition of casino towers and ten thousand snow geese is the most photographed thing in the refuge.
800 Great Creek Road, Oceanville, New Jersey, 08231, United States
A US Fish and Wildlife Service refuge. The visitor centre and trails are FREE and keep daytime hours; A SMALL PER-VEHICLE FEE APPLIES TO THE EIGHT-MILE WILDLIFE DRIVE, collected at a SELF-SERVICE KIOSK that is frequently unstaffed — bring a card or exact cash, and federal duck stamps and the America the Beautiful pass are accepted. The Wildlife Drive is one-way gravel on earth dykes and CLOSES SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR for tidal flooding, storms and repairs, so check before driving out. THE HOLGATE UNIT IS CLOSED FROM ROUGHLY APRIL TO EARLY SEPTEMBER for nesting and the closure is enforced. Nothing is sold in the refuge — no food, water or fuel.
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