Department of Conservation and Recreation
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
Due to the expected impact of the winter storm, all Virginia State Park overnight facilities will be closed from Friday, Jan. 23 through Tuesday, Jan. 27. This decision is based on the forecast for unsafe conditions and potential power outages. For updates click here.
LOCALITY |
OWNER |
ACRES |
ACCESS |
NEWS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathews | The Nature Conservancy | 105 | Yes |
SITE DESCRIPTION:
An isolated point of land jutting into the Chesapeake Bay, New Point Comfort is a strategically located habitat along the Atlantic Flyway for migrating birds. Each fall, the maritime forests behind windswept dunes provide refuge and food for neotropical migrants heading south to Latin America and the Caribbean for the winter. The 105-acre preserve provides quality habitat as well for nesting and breeding birds, including the rare Least Tern. New Point Comfort also provides protection for the federally threatened northeastern beach tiger beetle (Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis).
VISITATION:
New Point Comfort Natural Area Preserve is owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy. Facilities include a short boardwalk and marsh overlook.
For visitation information contact the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy at (434) 295-6106.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The acquisition, public access improvements, and initial interpretive signage on this preserve were funded by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA27OZ0312-01, NA57OZ0561-01, and NA19NOS4190163 of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended.
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