New date added:

Fall Shoreline Clean up with CLEAN VIRGINIA WATERWAYS:

Dameron Marsh Natural Area Preserve
Saturday, November 6
9:00-11:00 am
Site Captain contact: Camille Grabb, nnmnpresident@gmail.com 

The 316-acre Dameron Marsh Natural Area Preserve is one in a series of protected lands that line the western and eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. This preserve contains one of the most significant wetlands on the Chesapeake Bay for marsh-bird communities, and its pristine beach habitat is highly important for the federally threatened northeastern beach tiger beetle (Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis). DCR's efforts to conserve sites like Dameron Marsh are an effective means to sustain these important coastal ecosystems and both rare and common species. Dameron Marsh supports impressive salt marsh communities, sand beach, and upland forest habitats.

Dameron Marsh NAP is located between Kilmarnock and Burgess, VA.

Location Coordinates: 37.779995, -76.308004

From Kilmarnock, go north on VA 200 towards Burgess. Turn right onto VA 606. Turn left at the Shiloh schoolhouse onto VA 605. Turn right onto VA 606, and then left onto VA 693. Follow VA 693 into the preserve.