{"id":44324,"date":"2025-11-12T21:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44324\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:53:06","slug":"refuge-lands-waters-open-to-public-sanibel-captiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44324\/","title":{"rendered":"Refuge lands, waters open to public &#8211; SANIBEL-CAPTIVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel reported that public access to its lands and waters \u2014 such as Wildlife Drive, the Indigo Trail, Bailey Tract trails and the Tarpon Bay Explorers \u2014 is open. It includes the restrooms on Wildlife Drive and narrated tram tours on Wildlife Drive on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Most U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will not be available during the government shutdown, and the Visitor &amp; Education Center, restrooms, Refuge Nature Store and administrative offices are closed. Shopping is still available at <a href=\"http:\/\/shopdingdarling.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shopdingdarling.com<\/a>. For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/shutdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/shutdown<\/a>. The J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge is at 1 Wildlife Drive, Sanibel.<\/p>\n<p>To reach REFUGE\/DDWS, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.captivasanibel.com\/news\/2025\/11\/refuge-lands-waters-open-to-public\/mailto:\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The J.N. \u201cDing\u201d Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel reported that public access to its lands and waters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-44324","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\/44324","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=44324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}