Chautauqua NWR
Mason County, IL
!1 special✕1 closed
🦆🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
810 huntable acres
State guide · 2026–2027 season
Illinois Wildlife Refuge Hunting
Illinois has 13 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges and stations in our database, 12 of which list hunting opportunities. The largest huntable refuge areas are Upper Mississippi River NWFR (237K ac), Crab Orchard NWR (44.4K ac) and Cypress Creek NWR (16.4K ac).
13refuges & stations
40hunt units
121Khuntable acres
0WPAs
Map of refuges & WPAs in Illinois
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Illinois by the numbers
- Special regulations121,214 ac 85%
- Closed20,892 ac 15%
All refuges & stations in Illinois
Clarence Cannon NWR
Pike County, MO · primary: MO
✓1 open!2 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
3.9K huntable acres
Crab Orchard NWR
Williamson County, IL
!5 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
44.4K huntable acres
Cypress Creek NWR
Alexander County, IL
!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
16.4K huntable acres
Emiquon NWR
Fulton County, IL
!1 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
894 huntable acres
Great River NWR
Adams County, IL
!5 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
11.3K huntable acres
Hackmatack NWR
McHenry County, IL
!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
655 huntable acres
Kankakee NWR and Conservation Area
Iroquois County, IL
!1 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
66 huntable acres
Meredosia NWR
Morgan County, IL
✕2 closed
🎣
Middle Mississippi River NWR
Jackson County, IL
!9 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
8.2K huntable acres
Port Louisa NWR
Louisa County, IA · primary: IA
!4 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
15.4K huntable acres
Two Rivers NWR
Calhoun County, IL
!8 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
9K huntable acres
Upper Mississippi River NWFR
Houston County, MN · primary: MN
!10 special✕6 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
237K huntable acres
Counties with federal public hunting land
- Adams County 1 refuge
- Alexander County 2 refuges
- Brown County 1 refuge
- Calhoun County 3 refuges
- Carroll County 1 refuge
- Cass County 1 refuge
- Fulton County 1 refuge
- Greene County 1 refuge
- Iroquois County 1 refuge
- Jackson County 2 refuges
- Jersey County 1 refuge
- Jo Daviess County 1 refuge
- Johnson County 1 refuge
- Marshall County 1 refuge
- Mason County 2 refuges
- McHenry County 1 refuge
- Mercer County 1 refuge
- Monroe County 1 refuge
- Morgan County 1 refuge
- Pike County 1 refuge
- Pulaski County 1 refuge
- Randolph County 1 refuge
- Rock Island County 1 refuge
- Union County 2 refuges
- Whiteside County 1 refuge
- Williamson County 1 refuge
Hunting in Illinois: what to know
Licenses & seasons
Refuge hunts follow Illinois seasons, bag limits and license requirements set by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Refuges may be more restrictive — never less — than state rules.
Refuge-specific rules
Each refuge publishes hunt regulations in 50 CFR Part 32 and in its hunt brochure. Units marked special regulations may limit species, dates, weapons, or require quota permits.
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