From the south, travel north on US 13/113 into Delaware to State Route 16 (10 milesnorth of Georgetown). Turn right on State Route 16 and travel to the intersection of Route 1/16. Follow Route 16, 1.1 miles and turn left onto Turkle Pond Road. Follow Turkle Pond Road to office/visitor contact station.

Various moist-soil strategies and techniques are used to manage and monitor the refuge's freshwater impoundments by annually creating different mosaics of annual and perennial wetland plant communities. This is accomplished by performing slow drawdown and reflooding regimes between the refuge's 3 impoundments: Unit II (1,500 acres), Unit III (2,500 acres) and Unit IV (200 acres). In this way, a wider spectrum of wetland-dependent species can be targeted to benefit from marsh and water level manipulations, habitats (like shallow mudflats)and food resources (like midge larvae) can be developed for shorebirds in the spring and summer, while simultaneously generating excellent seed production of moist-soil annual plants, which can later be made available to migrating and wintering waterfowl within the same impoundments during the fall and winter of that same year.

Maintenance of additional resting and feeding areas supporting migratory Canada geese and black ducks, both species of special concern due to declining population trends within the Atlantic Flyway, is another important objective of the refuge's marsh, water and croplands planning endeavors. Other specialized habitat enhancement and monitoring programs are centered around the endangered Delmarva fox squirrel to restore and stabilize population numbers within the squirrel's historical range.