Boyer Chute NWR
Pottawattamie County, IA · primary: IA
✓1 open!10 special
🦌🦆🦃🎣
4K huntable acres
State guide · 2026–2027 season
Nebraska Wildlife Refuge Hunting
Nebraska has 9 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges and stations in our database, 9 of which list hunting opportunities, plus 63 named Waterfowl Production Areas covering 25,926 acres of walk-in public land. The largest huntable refuge areas are Valentine NWR (70.9K ac), Crescent Lake NWR (41.9K ac) and Rainwater Basin WMD (24.9K ac).
9refuges & stations
30hunt units
155Khuntable acres
63WPAs
Map of refuges & WPAs in Nebraska
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Nebraska by the numbers
- Open24,938 ac 14%
- Special regulations129,682 ac 73%
- Closed23,361 ac 13%
All refuges & stations in Nebraska
Crescent Lake NWR
Garden County, NE
!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
41.9K huntable acres
Desoto NWR
Washington County, NE
!4 special✕2 closed
🦌🦃🐦🎣
6.8K huntable acres
Fort Niobrara NWR
Cherry County, NE
!1 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
5.1K huntable acres
John W. and Louise Seier NWR
Rock County, NE
!1 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗
2.4K huntable acres
Karl E. Mundt NWR
Gregory County, SD · primary: SD
!1 special✕2 closed
🦌
697 huntable acres
North Platte NWR
Scotts Bluff County, NE
!2 special✕2 closed
🦌🦃🐦🐇🎣
1.5K huntable acres
Rainwater Basin WMD
Phelps County, NE
✓1 open✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
24.9K huntable acres
Valentine NWR
Cherry County, NE
!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
70.9K huntable acres
Counties with federal public hunting land
- Adams County 2 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Cherry County 2 refuges
- Clay County 19 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Fillmore County 10 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Franklin County 4 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Garden County 1 refuge
- Gosper County 3 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Hall County 1 WPA · 1 refuge
- Hamilton County 3 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Kearney County 9 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Morrill County 1 refuge
- Phelps County 6 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Rock County 1 refuge
- Saline County 1 refuge
- Scotts Bluff County 1 refuge
- Seward County 1 WPA · 1 refuge
- Sioux County 1 refuge
- Washington County 2 refuges
- York County 5 WPAs · 1 refuge
Hunting in Nebraska: what to know
Licenses & seasons
Refuge hunts follow Nebraska seasons, bag limits and license requirements set by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. 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.
Walk-in WPAs
Nebraska's 63 Waterfowl Production Areas are generally open to hunting under state rules. Browse NE WPAs by county →
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