US Fish & Wildlife Service

20 Dec 2018

Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte, New Mexico

We stayed in New Mexico for a couple of days so we could visit Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Before the Rio Grande was dammed, this area regularly flooded. It attracted lots of migrating birds, especially sandhill cranes and … Read More

27 Feb 2016

Shepard State Park, Gautier, Mississippi

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Most sites are less than level. We had to pull in and use blocks and we still couldn’t get level. Bathrooms were a contrast. The shower stalls themselves were relatively new tile work. Everything else was dated. Some parts were … Read More

12 Jan 2016

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Folkston, Georgia

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Spanning the Georgia-Florida border is the remote Okefenokee swamp. It isn’t really a swamp, but rather a bog, with extensive peat deposits. FDR designated it a National Wildlife Refuge. We stopped at the visitor center near Folkston, GA. This provides … Read More