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Events for 2023 are below and here 2023_FWNWR-Calendar.pdf. Our popular Wings Over Willapa Festival will be September 22 - 24, 2023.

Upcoming events

    • April 16, 2023
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • End of 95th St off Sandridge Rd Long Beach WA
    • 9
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    Join Rebecca Lexa, certified Oregon Master Naturalist, on an easy 0.7-mile (one-way) hike through open fields, seasonal wetlands, young coastal forest, and coastal prairie restoration areas. A variety of songbirds and raptors are often seen here, with occasional sightings of young black bears, elk, and deer. Bring your binoculars and camera to see our forest friends through the viewing blind. 


    • April 28, 2023
    • April 29, 2023
    • 2 sessions
    • Friday: Salt Hotel & Pub; 147 Howerton Ave, Ilwaco, WA and Saturday: Oysterville Road Beach Approach

    Registration available the end of March!

    Shrink your internal organs while doubling your body weight: it’s migration season! Let’s track the incredible journeys, and changes along the way, as our local migrants move between wintering and breeding grounds.  Ram Papish shares his experiences with migratory songbirds and shorebirds in far flung locations across North and South America. 

    Ram Papish is a professional wildlife enthusiast whose varied career includes biologist, educator, photographer and wildlife artist. He specializes in design and illustration of interpretive panels. An avid traveler, Ram has a passion for observing and photographing wildlife worldwide.  

    Ram will present Friday evening at the Salt Hotel, and lead a walk Saturday morning. The evening presentation begins at 6:30 pm in the upstairs room of the Salt Hotel and Restaurant (doors open approximately 6pm). Saturday's walk meets at 9am at the Oysterville Road Beach Approach (west end of Oysterville Road), with a beach hike to see a variety of shorebirds, gulls and raptors, and if lucky, perhaps a snowy plover. Then you will get back in your car and migrate to the northern Leadbetter Point parking area to continue viewing opportunities along Willapa Bay and through the shore pine forest.

    Thank you to Salt for hosting the presentation; there will be a cash bar and food-ordering options (please come early if ordering dinner).

    Space is limited; please register for these events! 

    • May 20, 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • End of 67th Pl off Sandridge Rd Long Beach, WA

    Registration coming soon!

    Hope Presley, USFWS Visitor Services Specialist, and Jenny Orellana, Visitor Services and Biology Intern, will guide you through a moderately difficult 2.4-mile hike.

    The hike will begin by overlooking Willapa Bay, where vast flocks of migratory shorebirds and waterfowl can be seen. The trail then forms a loop where you enter a cedar swamp before climbing and descending to the ridgetop of Porter Point. Be on the lookout as you might hear or see raptors soaring in the sky!


    • June 17, 2023
    • 6:00 PM
    • End of 67th Pl off Sandridge Rd Long Beach, WA

    Registration coming soon!

    Rebecca Lexa, certified Oregon Master Naturalist, will lead the moderate 1.5-mile (one-way) hike through a restored tidal marsh and a forest where black bear, elk, and deer are occasionally seen. The trail overlooks Willapa Bay, which provides an excellent view of large flocks of shorebirds and waterfowl. 

    • July 15, 2023
    • 3888 US-101, Ilwaco, WA near mile marker 24

    Registration and details coming soon!

    • July 15, 2023
    • 3888 US-101, Ilwaco, WA near mile marker 24

    Registration coming soon!

    Hope Presley, USFWS Visitor Services Specialist, and Jenny Orellana, Visitor Services and Biology Intern, invite you on an easy 0.25-mile (one-way) hike for the reopening of the Art Trail! The art is placed along the curving boardwalk to tell the stories of the watershed and species that live there.


    • August 05, 2023
    • 3888 US-101, Ilwaco, WA near mile marker 24

    Registration coming soon!

    • August 12, 2023
    • 1:00 PM
    • North on Hwy 101 to end of road, Oysterville, WA

    Registration coming soon!

    Rebecca Lexa, certified Oregon Master Naturalist, will guide you on an easy hike through trails that wind along the bay and through shorepine forest at the northern end of the Long Beach Peninsula, known as Leadbetter Point. Waterfowl and shorebirds can be seen along the salt marsh habitat, while songbirds and woodpeckers are heard in the forest. Discovery Pass Required.


    • September 22, 2023
    • September 24, 2023
    • Various locations on peninsula

    Registration coming soon!

    • October 14, 2023
    • 10:00 AM
    • End of 95th St off Sandridge Rd Long Beach WA

    Registration coming soon!

    Rebecca Lexa, certified Oregon Master Naturalist, will lead an easy hike on two trails that provide the opportunity to see coastal forests, open fields, and freshwater and estuary wetland habitats. At the end of the South Bay trail, a scenic overlook with views of Willapa Bay, where flocks of shorebirds and waterfowl gather. River otters can sometimes be seen swimming through the sloughs.


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