Pascagoula River

The Pascagoula River basin, covering 8,800 square miles, is the largest, essentially unfragmented river system in the lower 48 United States, representing critical breeding, migrating and wintering habitat for a multitude of birds and other wildlife.

Directions and Map: Mobile Convention Center to River

Bottomland hardwood forests cover 77 percent of the area along with aquatic habitats (14 percent), pine forests (4 percent), freshwater scrub/shrub (2 percent) and other mixed habitats. The associated Pascagoula Wildlife Management Area stretches along most of the 81 miles of the Pascagoula River, which flows from the confluence of the Leaf and Chickasawhay rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.