{"id":176557,"date":"2026-03-03T17:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:49:06","slug":"new-hours-for-refuges-wildlife-drive-sanibel-captiva-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176557\/","title":{"rendered":"New hours for refuge\u2019s Wildlife Drive &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge reported that the gate times for Wildlife Drive changed on March 1 to 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Due to Daylight Savings Time, they will change again on March 8 to 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. It is open every day except for Fridays, regardless of holidays. Admission is $10 for vehicles and $1 for hikers and bicyclists. The refuge is at 1 Wildlife Drive, Sanibel.<\/p>\n<p>To reach REFUGE\/DDWS, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/2026\/03\/new-hours-for-refuges-wildlife-drive-12\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge reported that the gate times for Wildlife Drive changed on March&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-176557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}