Wildlife Management Area · Prairie Pothole Region · Prairie Pothole Region; 32,345 acres of vast prairie and wetland complex
Verified coordinates from the source record. Still confirm the current entrance and road status before travelling.
April to May for spring migration and lekking; fall waterfowl
Peak months in the record: Apr, May, Sep, Oct
Pick any day of the coming week for sunrise, sunset, the low-light windows and the forecast at Lonetree WMA.
Enormous area: vehicle touring on section-line roads plus walk-in. Study the ND Game and Fish map sheet before going.
Free
Very large and remote: carry water, tell someone your route. Heavy waterfowl hunting in fall; minimum-maintenance roads.
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).
Waterfowl
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Backlit dawn takeoffs from river roosts near Bismarck give clean sky backgrounds minutes from home.
Illustration, not a field photograph · Real photos on All About Birds
Raptors
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Low coursing flight over cattails at golden hour; gray 'ghost' males are a prize subject.
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.