Nature reserve · North Carolina

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge from directly overhead

Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. The nearest named place is Kiddie Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Alligator River Route runs past it. 44 named places lie within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Access: restricted

Getting there

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Coordinates35.91538, -76.25382

On the Alligator River Route
13.5 mi off the Edenton-Windsor Loop
21.3 mi off the Perquiman's Crossing
25.2 mi off the Pamlico Scenic Byway

Around it

44 named places within 25 miles

Parks18

Kiddie Park: 0.1 mi
Main Street Park: 0.1 mi
Columbia Town Park: 0.4 mi
Tyrrell County Park: 1.0 mi
Washington County Veterans Field: 8.0 mi

Nature reserves17

Kitty Hawk Woods: 0.5 mi
WRC Columbia Access Area: 1.4 mi
Lantern Acres Gameland: 6.8 mi
J. Morgan Futch Game Land: 7.3 mi
WRC Scuppernong River Access Area: 8.2 mi

Attractions3

Somerset Place Plantation: 12.2 mi
Cupola House: 22.2 mi
Creef Cut Wildlife Trail: 22.5 mi

Museums2

Red Wolf Center: 1.2 mi
Perquimans County History Museum: 22.3 mi

Historic sites2

U.S. Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross: 24.3 mi
U.S. Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross: 24.3 mi

Ghost towns1

Buffalo City: 19.5 mi

Beaches1

Bugsy Beach: 22.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:10	18:43	19:17
June solstice	05:50	19:47	20:26
September equinox	06:54	18:30	19:04
December solstice	07:12	16:16	16:55

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	43	44	50	59	68	75	79	77	72	63	53	46
Precip in	4.1	3.5	4.0	3.5	4.4	5.3	5.8	6.6	6.2	3.9	3.8	4.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Columbia AG GUM Neck, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/33068381

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