Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge

Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
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Location	Moffat County, Colorado, United States
Nearest city	Craig
Coordinates	40°49′30″N 108°57′0″W / 40.82500°N 108.95000°W / 40.82500; -108.95000[1]
Area	13,450 acres (54.4 km2)
Established	1965
Governing body	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Website	www.fws.gov/refuge/browns_park/

Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge is a 13,450-acre (5,440 ha) U.S. National Wildlife Refuge located in northwestern Colorado. It is located in Moffat County in the extreme northwestern corner of the state, in an isolated mountain valley of Browns Park on both sides of the Green River, approximately 25 miles (40 km) below Flaming Gorge Dam. Established in 1965, the refuge is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service office in Maybell, Colorado. The refuge is approximately 53 miles (85 km) northwest of Maybell on State Highway 318. The refuge consists of bottomland and adjacent benchland. The western border of the refuge is the Colorado-Utah state line. The refuge is surrounded by adjacent lines of the Bureau of Land Management. The refuge contains the site of the former Fort Davy Crockett that was constructed in 1837 to protect trappers against attacks by Blackfoot Native Americans.