Little River National Wildlife Refuge

Little River National Wildlife Refuge

Parks Directory of the United States / National Wildlife RefugesAddress:PO Box 340
Broken Bow, OK 74728
Phone:580-584-6211
Web: www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/oklahoma/littleriver
Established: 1987.
Location:Southeastern Oklahoma in Broken Bow.
Facilities:Boat ramps.
Activities:Boating, canoeing, fishing, hunting, hiking.
Special Features:Refuge is the only known nesting locatin in Oklahoma for Swainson's warbler, a secretive songbird that winters in the Caribbean.
Habitats: 15,000 acres of low, wet bottomland with old oxbows and sloughs with cypress.
Access: Year round.
Wild life: Migratory waterfowl, primarily mallards and wood ducks. Also Swainson's warbler, flycatchers, swallows, vireos, snakes, swamp rabbits, raccoons, alligator, and beaver.
See other parks in Oklahoma.