Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge spans 7,157 acres spread across five units within Mobile and Baldwin Counties. The refuge is located directly west of the city of Gulf Shores along the Fort Morgan Peninsula and provides an important feeding and resting area for more than 400 species of native and migratory birds. The refuge was established in 1980 and features the Fort Morgan, Little Dauphin Island, Little Point Clear, Perdue, and Sand Bayou units, which together comprise one of the Gulf Coast’s largest undeveloped regions. Protected beachfront, scrub forest, marshland, and swampland habitats are maintained throughout the refuge, which is also home to a number of endangered and threatened wildlife species. Four visitors trails are offered in the refuge’s Perdue unit, spanning a total distance of five miles.
Address: Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, 12295 Alabama 180, Gulf Shores, AL 36542, Phone: 251-540-7720
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