Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife RefugesAddress:3860 Tollgate Blvd, Suite 300
Naples, FL 34114
Phone:239-353-8442
Fax:239-353-8640
Web: www.fws.gov/southeast/tenthousandisland
Established: 1996.
Location:20 miles southeast of Naples, Florida, on the south side of State Road 41.
Facilities:Trail.
Activities:Camping, hunting, boating, canoeing, fishing.
Special Features:Refuge encompasses part of one of the largest expanses of mangrove estuary in North America, and its beaches provide a substantial nesting area for loggerhead sea turtles.
Habitats: 35,000 acres of mangrove forest, marine waters, and freshwater marshland.
Access: Year round.
Wild life: Wood storks, wading birds, shore birds, manatees, sea turtles.
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