Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge
119 Trails
299 POIs
7 Picnic Sites
2 Viewpoints
Description
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife preserve, one of the national wildlife refuges operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, located in the westernmost part of Clark County, Washington. The refuge protects more than 5,200 acres (2,100 ha) of marshes, grasslands, and woodlands. The refuge was established (along with 3 other refuges in the Willamette Valley of Oregon) in 1965, in response to a need to establish vital winter habitat for wintering waterfowl with an emphasis on the dusky Canada goose whose nesting areas in Alaska were severely impacted by the violent earthquake of 1964. Ridgefield NWR is part of the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Complex, headquartered in Ridgefield, Washington, which oversees the management of four refuges in the southwestern part of the state: Ridgefield, and three refuges in the Columbia River Gorge: Franz Lake, Pierce, and Steigerwald Lake. Stately sandhill cranes, shorebirds, and a great variety of songbirds stop at the refuge during spring and fall migrations. Some bird species such as mallards, great blue herons, and red-tailed hawks are year-round residents that nest on the refuge. Black-tailed deer and cougars are the largest mammals on the refuge. Smaller mammal species such as coyote, raccoon, skunk, porcupine, bobcat, beaver, mink, river otter, and brush rabbits are occasionally seen.
Trails in the Hikepack map
- Burnt Bridge Creek Trail
- Cedar Loop
- Cougar Creek Trail
- Frenchmans Bar Trail
- Fruit Valley Road
- Grist Mill Loop
- Kiwa Trail
- La Frambois Road
- Lewis & Clark Discovery Greenway Trail
- North Ridge Way
- Northwest 115th Street
- Northwest 118th Street
- Northwest 119th Street
- Northwest 139th Street
- Northwest 149th Street
- Northwest 151st Street
- Northwest 169th Street
- Northwest 179th Street
- Northwest 209th Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue
- Northwest 26th Avenue
- Northwest 27th Avenue
- Northwest 31st Avenue
- Northwest 32nd Avenue
- Northwest 36th Avenue
- Northwest 41st Avenue
- Northwest 53rd Court
- Northwest 61st Avenue
- Northwest 78th Street
- Northwest 93rd Street
- Northwest 94th Street
- Northwest 99th Street
- Northwest Bernie Drive
- Northwest Bliss Road
- Northwest Carty Road
- Northwest Ecklund Road
- Northwest Erwin O Rieger Memorial Highway
- Northwest Fruit Valley Road
- Northwest Hathaway Road
- Northwest Hillhurst Road
- Northwest Krieger Road
- Northwest Lakeshore Avenue
- Northwest Lower River Road
- Northwest Seward Road
- Oaks to Wetlands Trail
- Pioneer Street
- Raspberry Lane
- Ripple Creek Way
- Salmon Creek Greenway Trail
- South Hillhurst Road
- South Ridge Loop
- South Royle Road
- Warrior Rock Lighthouse Trail
Attractions in the Hikepack map
- Bernie Drive & Fruit Valley Road
- Bernie Drive & Lupin Street
- Bernie Drive 6700 Block
- Berth 17
- Bliss Road & 21st Avenue
- Bliss Road & 26th Avenue
- Bliss Road 1800 Block
- Blurock Landing
- Buckets
- Canoe Launch
- Carty Unit Parking
- Cathlapolte Plankhouse
- Chevron
- Country Store
- Eagle Shelter
- El Rancho Viejo
- End of the Road Grill
- ExtraMile
- Farrar's Bistro
- Felida
- Felida Coffee House
- Felida Store
- Fruit Valley Road & 37th Street
- Fruit Valley Road & La Frambois
- Gazebo, Lake View
- Hathaway & 19th Avenue
- Hathaway Road 1800 Block
- Hathaway Road 1900 Block
- Heron Shelter
- Kiwa Trail
- Kiwa Trailhead Parking
- Knapp
- Knapp Landing
- Lakeshore
- Lakeshore Drive & Bernie
- Langsdorf Landing Columbia River Boat Access Ramp
- Lava Java
- Line & Lure
- Longhouse
- Michael Jordan's Steak House
- Northeast 119th Street & 23rd Avenue
- Northwest 119th Street & 26th Avenue
- Northwest 119th Street & 31st Avenue
- Northwest 119th Street & 33rd Avenue
- Northwest 119th Street & 35th Avenue
- Northwest 119th Street 2100 Block
- Northwest 119th Street at Felida Elementary
- Northwest 139th Street 1300 Block
- Northwest 149th Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue & 101st Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue & 108th Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue & 111th Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue & 113th Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue & 99th Street
- Northwest 21st Avenue 10400 Block
- Northwest 36th Avenue & 122nd Street
- Northwest 36th Avenue & 124th Street
- Northwest 36th Avenue & 126th Street
- Northwest 36th Avenue & 127th Street
- Northwest 36th Avenue & 129th Street
- Northwest 36th Avenue & 131st Street
- Northwest 36th Avenue at Salmon Creek Trail
- Northwest 78th Street & 14th Avenue
- Northwest 78th Street & 15th Avenue
- Northwest 78th Street & Fruit Valley Road
- Northwest 99th Street & 16th Avenue
- Northwest 99th Street & 18th Avenue
- Northwest 99th Street & 20th Avenue
- Oaks to Wetlands Trail
- Public Access Boat Launch
- Ridgefield
- Ridgefield Pioneer Marketplace
- Ridgefield Post Office
- Ridgeport Dairy Unit Parking #1
- Ridgeport Dairy Unit Parking #3
- River S Observation Parking
- River S Unit Main Parking
- Rose & Thorn
- Rye Junction
- Sara
- Seasons
- Seward Road & Creekside Drive
- Sportsman's Restaurant & Lounge
- Starbucks
- The Holy Grill
- Vancouver Lake Boat Access Ramp
- Vinnie's Pizza
- West 39th Street & Fruit Valley Road
- Woodland Bottoms Water Access Site
- Zebrun's Starliner
Copyright
The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Walter Siegmund https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ridgefield_NWR_00847r.jpg CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/).
