Nature reserve · Minnesota

Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge

Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge from directly overhead

Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve in Minnesota, at a modelled elevation of 347 m. The nearest named place is Cedar II Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 5.4 miles away. Waters of the Dancing Sky Scenic Byway passes 26 miles off.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.32336, -96.03763

25.7 mi off the Waters of the Dancing Sky Scenic Byway

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Cedar II Wildlife Management Area: 5.4 mi
Mudlac Wildlife Management Area: 5.9 mi
Elm Lake Wildlife Management Area: 5.9 mi
Agder Wildlife Management Area: 7.4 mi
Spruce Valley Wildlife Management Area: 7.8 mi

Parks24

Middle River Memorial Park: 9.7 mi
Newfolden City Park: 13.3 mi
Newfolden Memorial Park: 13.4 mi
Centennial Park: 15.0 mi
Northrop Park: 15.1 mi

Historic sites2

Holt Veterans Memorial: 7.4 mi
Veteran War Memorial: 9.6 mi

Artworks1

Goose Capitol of Minnesota Sculpture: 9.7 mi

Attractions1

M60: 15.7 mi

Ghost towns1

Kratka: 18.2 mi

Museums1

Viking Farmer Museam: 18.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:28	18:56	19:37
June solstice	05:24	20:40	21:30
September equinox	07:11	18:43	19:24
December solstice	08:13	15:38	16:33

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	6	11	26	42	56	66	70	68	59	44	28	13
Precip in	0.6	0.5	0.8	1.4	3.1	3.9	4.0	3.3	2.7	2.2	1.1	0.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Agassiz Refuge, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby

Black Tern2 obs
Greater Yellowlegs1 obs
Horned Grebe1 obs
American White Pelican1 obs
Peregrine Falcon1 obs
Yellow-headed Blackbird1 obs
Common Nighthawk1 obs
star-flowered lily-of-the-valley1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/1219825485

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