Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Arkansas, near Turrell and west of the Mississippi River, preserves a diverse landscape of open water, swampland, bottomland hardwood, cropland, and grassland. Established in 1961 on land from the former Wapanocca Outing Club, founded in 1886, it occupies an area that was once a bend in the Mississippi, a history that still shapes its wetlands and wildlife habitat. The refuge is an important stop on the Mississippi Flyway, providing resting and feeding habitat for migrating warblers and other neotropical birds, as well as blue herons, common egrets, and bald eagles.