Big Lake NWR
Mississippi County, AR · primary: AR
!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦃🐦🐇🐗🎣
10.4K huntable acres
State guide · 2026–2027 season
Missouri Wildlife Refuge Hunting
Missouri has 14 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges and stations in our database, 10 of which list hunting opportunities. The largest huntable refuge areas are Big Muddy NFWR (21.9K ac), Mingo NWR (16.4K ac) and Swan Lake NWR (11.7K ac).
14refuges & stations
31hunt units
66.3Khuntable acres
0WPAs
Map of refuges & WPAs in Missouri
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Missouri by the numbers
- Open2,684 ac 4%
- Special regulations63,638 ac 87%
- Closed6,450 ac 9%
All refuges & stations in Missouri
Big Muddy NFWR
Cooper County, MO
!1 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
21.9K huntable acres
Clarence Cannon NWR
Pike County, MO
✓1 open!2 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
3.9K huntable acres
Great River NWR
Adams County, IL · primary: IL
!5 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
11.3K huntable acres
Loess Bluffs NWR
Holt County, MO
!1 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🎣
7.4K huntable acres
Mammoth Spring NFH
Oregon County, MO
✕1 closed
No hunting listed
Marais des Cygnes NWR
Linn County, KS · primary: KS
!1 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
5K huntable acres
Middle Mississippi River NWR
Jackson County, IL · primary: IL
!9 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
8.2K huntable acres
Mingo NWR
Wayne County, MO
!6 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐇🎣
16.4K huntable acres
Neosho NFH
Newton County, MO
✕1 closed
🎣
Ozark Cavefish NWR
Lawrence County, MO
✕1 closed
No hunting listed
Pilot Knob NWR
Iron County, MO
✕1 closed
No hunting listed
Swan Lake NWR
Chariton County, MO
!7 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
11.7K huntable acres
Two Rivers NWR
Calhoun County, IL · primary: IL
!8 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
9K huntable acres
Counties with federal public hunting land
- Andrew County 1 refuge
- Bates County 2 refuges
- Boone County 1 refuge
- Carroll County 1 refuge
- Chariton County 2 refuges
- Clark County 1 refuge
- Cooper County 1 refuge
- Daviess County 1 refuge
- Dunklin County 1 refuge
- Franklin County 1 refuge
- Gentry County 1 refuge
- Henry County 1 refuge
- Holt County 1 refuge
- Howard County 1 refuge
- Iron County 1 refuge
- Jackson County 1 refuge
- Jefferson County 1 refuge
- Lafayette County 1 refuge
- Lawrence County 1 refuge
- Moniteau County 1 refuge
- Newton County 1 refuge
- Oregon County 1 refuge
- Osage County 1 refuge
- Perry County 1 refuge
- Pike County 3 refuges
- Ray County 1 refuge
- Saline County 1 refuge
- Shelby County 1 refuge
- St. Charles County 1 refuge
- St. Clair County 1 refuge
- St. Louis County 1 refuge
- Ste. Genevieve County 1 refuge
- Stoddard County 1 refuge
- Warren County 1 refuge
- Wayne County 1 refuge
Hunting in Missouri: what to know
Licenses & seasons
Refuge hunts follow Missouri seasons, bag limits and license requirements set by the Missouri Department of Conservation. 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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