Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge: A Quieter Alternative to Bombay Hook
An egret takes flight in Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge In April we visited Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge . Like Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge , Prime Hook was established as a sanctuary for migratory birds. Prime Hook is much smaller and quieter than Bombay, making it a more peaceful experience. Unlike Bombay Hook, there’s no fee to visit. T he name Prime Hook comes from Dutch settlers who found purple beach plums here and called the area Priume Hoek, meaning Plum Point. (UPDATE 9/11/2021: Read more about beach plums here .) As this map shows, Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge covers a ten-mile stretch of the Delaware Bayshore. But the refuge does not include the shoreline. The shoreline is occupied by Slaughter Beach , Fowler Beach, Prime Hook Beach, and Broadkill Beach . Those communities were established before Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1963. There are several access points into the wildlife refuge. The one of i...