Trail and Wildlife Refuge Closures

❄️ The Nature Center and Aquarium will resume normal hours beginning Saturday, February 28 – please join us for Free Family Fun Day! Although the building is closed until then, our parking lot is plowed and visitors are welcome on the grounds.

❄️ Our headquarters office will reopen on Monday, March 2.

❄️ Currently, the following Audubon Wildlife Refuges have plowed parking lots:
Caratunk Wildlife Refuge (Seekonk, MA), Fisherville Brook Wildlife Refuge (Exeter, RI), Fort Wildlife Refuge (North Smithfield, RI), Maxwell Mays Wildlife Refuge (Coventry, RI), Nature Center and Aquarium (Bristol, RI), Powder Mill Ledges Wildlife Refuge (Smithfield, RI)
Our team is working hard to get lots cleared at other locations, but please note that some parking lots may remain unplowed for some time.

❄️ The Audubon Society of RI manages fourteen wildlife refuges for public access: you can help us weather the storm of the unexpected blizzard expenses by making a donation today!

Through our RePower Audubon initiative, we are proving what climate leadership looks like at the organizational level. The climate crisis demands action, not excuses. Your support will allow us to show others what is possible.

Birders have been reporting the return of ducks, including harlequin duck, greater scaup, common eider, red-breasted mer­ganser, bufflehead and all three scoters– read the latest installment in Newport This Week's "Nature in the Neighborhood" series, written by Audubon Senior Director Lauren Parmelee.