A Luxury Vacation Rental May be Near a Wildlife Refuge
October 2, 2007. Many vacations revolve around the Great Outdoors and places that reconnect us to nature. The Washington Post Travel section just published an article noting that National Wildlife Refuge Week comes around Oct. 7-13 this year. The National Wildlife Refuge System protects nearly 97 million acres in 548 refuges, according to the article.
In honor of these pristine lands, The Post suggested a few D.C.-area refuges. The nearby Blackwater NWR is a great place to go canoeing and birdwatching. The Patuxent Research Refuge welcomes hikers, bikers and horseback riders. The grasslands of the Occoquan Bay NWR are famous for attracting butterflies.
Delaware has the Bombay Hook NWR, which is another birding hotspot and has a 12-mile scenic drive and five nature trails. Visitors can win a free annual pass to the refuge by following 10 clues to different locations and photographing themselves at each site for the Family Nature Scavenger Photograph Search Challenge, being held between Oct. 13 and Nov. 2.
