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The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is the largest intact remnant of a vast habitat that once covered more than one million acres of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. The refuge trails are open daily, sunrise to sunset.
This Wildlife Drive route is a 6-mile (one-way) gravel road and features 3 boardwalks to stop at along the way. Visitors are welcome to drive, walk, or bicycle along this route. This is the main route in which visitors access the lake for boating, fishing, and wildlife observation.
The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is the largest intact remnant of a vast habitat that once covered more than one million acres of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.
With more than 112,000 acres of forested wetlands covering about 170 square miles, the Great Dismal Swamp offers hikers, birders, photographers, and butterfly chasers countless opportunities to seek out once-in-a-lifetime memories, images of pristine nature, and undisturbed wildlife.
Working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Apr 22, 2024 · The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is the last vestige of a swamp that once covered more than a million acres. The nearly 113,000 acres that remain cover a large swath of Suffolk, Chesapeake and North Carolina just south of the Virginia border. But many people who live in Hampton Roads don’t really know the swamp exists or that ...
Comprised on nearly 1110,000 acres of forested wetlands, canals, ponds, lakes, sphagnum bogs, evergreen shrubs, and marshy boarders, the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is the largest entity of the Coastal Phase of the Virginia Birding and Wildlife Trail.
