Top 5 Things To Do At Don Edwards SF Bay NWR

It’s National Wildlife Refuge Week and we want to help you celebrate in style. Get outside to enjoy all this refuge has to offer - birds, plants, bugs you name it!

Catch a fish at the Dumbarton Fishing Pier

No fishing license needed!

Take a guided tour in April to see the wildflowers at the Warm Springs Unit

Flowers flourish in the spring as water fills in short lived vernal pools.

Search for the elusive Ridgeway's Rail in LaRiviere Marsh

Bill Purcell

ps. They really love to hide out under the pickleweed!

Count up to 200 birds while hiking the Mallard Slough Trail in Alviso!

Bill Purcell

Large numbers of birds flock there while migrating north and south each season.

Learn about the ghost town Drawbridge at a scheduled lecture

The town began in 1876 and was a child of the railroad, bringing hunters and families, and its last resident left in 1979.