Wildlife Management Area · Missouri River Corridor · Missouri River; 12,152 acres of river bottoms, lake shoreline, ponds, and uplands
Approximate pin — a planning reference for the general area, not a trailhead or parking guarantee.
May for songbird migration; spring and fall for waterfowl
Peak months in the record: May, Sep, Oct
Pick any day of the coming week for sunrise, sunset, the low-light windows and the forecast at Lewis and Clark WMA.
Named sub-areas used by birders: Pumphouse area, Shooting Range Rd, Hwy 85 ponds, Skunk Hollow, West Hwy 85 access, Lewis and Clark Bridge. Mostly vehicle plus walk-in.
Free; overnight camping prohibited
Managed gun range on site (noise, safety buffers); heavy fall hunting; Missouri River bottom roads can flood.
The notes on this page come from the guide's fixed records and can age. These links open what the managing agency publishes right now — always the last word on access.
North Dakota Game and Fish Department (Wildlife Management Area)
Agency pages are found by searching the place name, so the search may list nearby units too — no page here is a stored link to a specific trailhead or gate.
No access check recorded for this place yet. Once you have confirmed the current rules with ND Game and Fish, mark it here so you can see how fresh your information is.
This only records that you checked. It never changes the guide's access notes and is not a statement from any agency.
Nobody publishes an open fall-colour peak map, so these are the dates volunteers recorded coloured leaves in North Dakota — a handful of plants at a handful of sites, not a statewide peak. Use the official reports below for the wider picture.
Leaf-out and leaf-colour timing: USA National Phenology Network (usanpn.org).
Songbirds
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Willow thickets at eye level in morning light. In mid-May, Tennessee, Magnolia, Blackburnian, American Redstart, and Blackpoll warblers move through in the same week.
Illustration, not a field photograph · Real photos on All About Birds
Songbirds
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Males arrive before leaves fully open; early May cottonwoods along the Missouri River bottoms are prime. Oranges and nectar feeders bring them to eye level.
Illustration, not a field photograph · Real photos on All About Birds
These are historical public posts collected as supporting evidence. They are not live sightings and do not guarantee current bird activity. Photos are not copied here — each entry links to the original post.
No collected post is mapped to this place. Several posts name only free-text locations — see the evidence log for those.