May 6, 2022
Stopped by two parts of this refuge on the way back from a doctor’s appointment today. I’ll visit the third part sometime this month or next and add those photos to the bottom of this post.
The first location has four trails, three of them only a tenth of a mile long or so with the fourth being perhaps a mile. Note the Boat House Trail leads to a 19th Century structure on the water.
The second Oxford NWR location is just north of the first. The area feels abandoned; the parking sign has been knocked down, and there is graffiti on the NWR notices. Also, signs pointing to the one trail have vegetation growing over them. However, the trail itself is marked and not overgrown. It follows an ATV road and then swings uphill, where the river (oxbow) can be seen through the trees.
I’ll add photos on the third location after I visit later this month or in June.
June 17, 2022
Finished up the refuge by tackling the southern portion’s trails. These paths are pretty but overgrown. This is now apparently deerfly season, so I frantically ran (to no avail) to escape getting bitten. Almost landed on a small striped snake at one point.
