Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge

Located in the Lahontan Valley near Fallon, Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge is listed as a "globally important bird area" by the American Bird Conservancy. The wetlands here attract more than a quarter million waterfowl every year, including American white pelicans, White-faced ibis, Double-crested cormorants and several species of gulls, terns, egrets and herons. More than 280 species have been recorded in the area.

Stillwater Refuge offers the visitor a new self-guided tour loop with orientation and interpretive signs and several comfort stations along the way. However, if you get off the improved roadway, you want to be sure it's not going to rain... the "roads" are primitive and turn to slime at the first possible moment.

Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge is an 87,271-acre property that abuts the Fallon National Wildlife Refuge. Stillwater, Fallon and Anaho Island are all administered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service as parts of the Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge Complex.