Sam D.\u00a0Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge
\n<\/strong>Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is over 48,000 acres located in Noxubee, Oktibbeha, and Winston Counties.\u00a0 Habitats provided at the\u00a0refuge include bottomland hardwood forest communities, green-tree reservoirs, two lakes, 16 small impoundments, and assorted wetland areas.\u00a0“The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker relies on the refuge for its existence in east-central Mississippi.”
\nHere is the Refuge website<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0Phone\u00a0662-323-5548\u00a0 \u00a0Map<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/strong> The refuge has 11\u00a0trails<\/a>, 7 of them listed as “gentle”. \u00a0Surfaces vary from native, gravel, boardwalk, and concrete. \u00a0Here is a video<\/a> about the refuge.
\n<\/a>Bluff Lake Boardwalk is just under 1000′ long. \u00a0It “winds through a cypress island at the edge of Bluff Lake. ” \u00a0A good trail for observing birds.
\n<\/a>Cypress Cove Recreational Boardwalk is a\u00a0little over 500 feet in length and\u00a0allows access to Bluff Lake for fishing, sightseeing, or birdwatching, or just a different view. “It takes the visitor into a cypress grove on the edge of Bluff Lake and into the domain of the alligators and water dwelling creatures.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam D.\u00a0Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is over 48,000 acres located in Noxubee, Oktibbeha, and Winston Counties.\u00a0 Habitats provided at the\u00a0refuge include bottomland hardwood forest communities, green-tree reservoirs, two lakes, 16 small impoundments, and assorted wetland areas.\u00a0“The endangered red-cockaded woodpecker relies on the refuge for its existence … Continue reading Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee NWR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}