Photo credit: USFWS / Belson, Justine

Located 10 miles from downtown Sacramento, Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is an urban refuge for plants, animals, and you to enjoy. 

Established in 1992, Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is focused on preserving, enhancing, and restoring a diverse assemblage of native Central Valley plant communities and their associated fish, wildlife, and plants. Stone Lakes NWR hosts a variety of Central Valley habitats including grassland, permanent and seasonal wetland, riparian forest, and freshwater sloughs and lakes. The approved refuge boundary for the Refuge - the area within which the FWS is authorized to acquire, protect, and manage land - is 17,640 acres. Currently within the approved boundary, the FWS owns or manages 6,550 acres. 

The Refuge provides year-round public access to the Blue Heron Trails, located off of Hood Franklin Road. All other areas of the refuge are closed to the public except for scheduled guided tours or reservation only seasonal waterfowl hunting.

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/stone-lakes