Best places: Wildlife refuges in Monument, United States

Nonprofit sanctuary for wolves & wild canines offering guided tours & conservation programs.

Open lakes, wetlands, prairie grasslands & woodlands home to more than 330 species.

Spanning over 880 acres, this park offers 5 lakes for fishing, extensive trails & nature programs.

👍 Beautiful Area to walk. Water levels low.

👍👍 Early morning or late afternoon is best to see the buffalo. It's taken me two years of driving I-70 on other trips to get the timing right. But it's worth a stop if they're nearby.

👍👍 Absolutely gorgeous views and a free way to reset from a busy city schedule. We saw bison, prairie dogs, falcons, and a coyote! Great day other than when we visited, there was a large family allowing their children to climb on the bison enclosure to scream at the animals. We had to leave before we...

👍 Been here a few times to bike and walk. Always surprised there's no nature center building to walk in and no paper maps/map signs. Good parking. A word of warning; we saw a mountain lion attacking a snake on one of the more isolated trails. I've never run so fast.

Animal refuge set on uplands & wetlands & designed to protect birds, deer, turtles & native flora.

👍 It is wrong of them to have taken away the wildlife area on the north side of the reservoir. Guarantee, rich idiots cried & complained about gunfire. Even though, they are the dummies that built their house next to a state wildlife area, where hunting is permitted. Now, all of us who have enjoyed ha...

Stony trails over wetlands & grasslands, home to elk & birds of prey, around a former military site.

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