Visiting
Approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) of old patrol roads are reserved for foot traffic, rotating between 3 2-mile (3.2 km) loops. Information is posted at the visitor contact station and at trail heads. Wildlife Drive - 2 miles (3.2 km) of old patrol roads are reserved for motor vehicle and bicycle access. Vehicles can be a mobile blind, allowing visitors closer views. The blind effect is also why drivers and passengers must stay in their vehicles while on the drive.
There is a small entrance fee for anyone entering, by vehicle, bicycle, or on foot.
Read more about this topic: Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Famous quotes containing the word visiting:
“For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you.”
—Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 6:15.
The words are also found in Exodus 20:5, referring to the second commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ... for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”
“According to legend, Dr. Sappington purchased his coffin several years before his death and kept it under his bed, with apples and nuts in it for his visiting grandchildren.”
—Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions,
rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse.
...
I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn,
a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement.
People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)