Fox River NWR
Marquette County, WI
✓1 open✕1 closed
🦌
988 huntable acres
State guide · 2026–2027 season
Wisconsin Wildlife Refuge Hunting
Wisconsin has 13 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuges and stations in our database, 11 of which list hunting opportunities, plus 106 named Waterfowl Production Areas covering 22,827 acres of walk-in public land. The largest huntable refuge areas are Upper Mississippi River NWFR (237K ac), Necedah NWR (39.1K ac) and Horicon NWR (21.6K ac).
13refuges & stations
32hunt units
196Khuntable acres
106WPAs
Map of refuges & WPAs in Wisconsin
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Wisconsin by the numbers
- Open35,424 ac 18%
- Special regulations160,426 ac 81%
- Closed2,955 ac 1%
All refuges & stations in Wisconsin
Genoa NFH
Vernon County, WI
✕1 closed
🎣
Gravel Island NWR
Door County, WI
✕1 closed
No hunting listed
Green Bay NWR
WI
✓1 open!1 special✕4 closed
🦌🎣
459 huntable acres
Hackmatack NWR
McHenry County, IL · primary: IL
!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
655 huntable acres
Horicon NWR
Dodge County, WI
!3 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
21.6K huntable acres
Iron River NFH
Bayfield County, WI
✓1 open✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇
1.1K huntable acres
Leopold WMD
Columbia County, WI
✓1 open✕2 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
13.8K huntable acres
Necedah NWR
Juneau County, WI
✓1 open!1 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
39.1K huntable acres
St. Croix WMD
St. Croix County, WI
✓1 open!1 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
8.9K huntable acres
Trempealeau NWR
Trempealeau County, WI
✓1 open!1 special
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🎣
6.9K huntable acres
Upper Mississippi River NWFR
Houston County, MN · primary: MN
!10 special✕6 closed
🦌🦆🦃🐦🕊️🐇🐗🎣
237K huntable acres
Whittlesey Creek NWR
Bayfield County, WI
✓1 open!2 special✕1 closed
🦌🦆🎣
243 huntable acres
Counties with federal public hunting land
- Adams County 1 WPA · 1 refuge
- Bayfield County 2 refuges
- Buffalo County 2 refuges
- Columbia County 13 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Crawford County 1 refuge
- Dane County 10 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Dodge County 4 WPAs · 2 refuges
- Door County 1 refuge
- Dunn County 5 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Fond du Lac County 5 WPAs · 2 refuges
- Grant County 1 refuge
- Jefferson County 3 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Juneau County 1 refuge
- La Crosse County 1 refuge
- Manitowoc County 2 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Marquette County 3 WPAs · 2 refuges
- Oconto County 1 refuge
- Ozaukee County 6 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Polk County 14 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Rock County 3 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Sauk County 1 WPA · 1 refuge
- Shawano County 1 refuge
- Sheboygan County 4 WPAs · 1 refuge
- St. Croix County 28 WPAs · 1 refuge
- Trempealeau County 2 refuges
- Vernon County 2 refuges
- Walworth County 1 refuge
- Waushara County 1 WPA · 1 refuge
- Winnebago County 3 WPAs · 1 refuge
Hunting in Wisconsin: what to know
Licenses & seasons
Refuge hunts follow Wisconsin seasons, bag limits and license requirements set by the Wisconsin 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.
Walk-in WPAs
Wisconsin's 106 Waterfowl Production Areas are generally open to hunting under state rules. Browse WI WPAs by county →
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