Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge is a protected marsh on Ohio’s Lake Erie shore, created in 1964 after the Cedar Point Shooting Club owners donated the land to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Spanning about 2,630 acres, it preserves a major coastal wetland, including nearly 2,000 acres of contiguous marsh tied to the region’s former Great Black Swamp landscape. The refuge was established for conservation, aiming to balance wildlife populations with habitat and limit exotic species. It is especially valuable for migratory waterfowl using the Lake Erie corridor, while also carrying an older history as a shelter point for River Raisin Massacre refugees in 1813.