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Wildlife Management Areas

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries maintains 44 management areas totaling more than 225,000 acres for the benefit of all citizens for a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities. Many management areas are open for some type of hunting. These lands are purchased and maintained with hunting, fishing, and trapping license fees and with Wildlife Restoration funds, derived from the sale of hunting-related equipment. We encourage the public to utilize all lands and enjoy the bountiful natural resources found there.

WMA

Acres
  1. * Game Farm Marsh WMA
 530 acres
  1. Saxis WMA
 5,574 acres
  1. * Mockhorn Island/GATR WMA
 7,642 acres
  1. */# Hog Island/Carlisle WMA
 3,908 acres
  1. */# Princess Anne WMA
 1,546 acres
  1. Cavalier/Dismal Swamp WMA
 4,485 acres
  1. Ragged Island WMA
 1,537 acres
  1. * Chickahominy WMA
 5,218 acres
  1. Powhatan WMA
 4,463 acres
  1. * Amelia WMA
 2, 217 acres
  1. * Dick Cross WMA
 1,400 acres
  1. Briery Creek WMA
 3,164 acres
  1. */## Featherfin WMA
 3,084 acres
  1. Horsepen WMA
 2,910 acres
  1. White Oak Mt. WMA
 2,748 acres
  1. Turkeycock Mt. WMA
 2,678 acres
  1. Crooked Creek WMA
 1,796 acres
  1. Stewarts Creek WMA
 1,138 acres
  1. Big Survey WMA
 7,564 acres
  1. Hidden Valley WMA
 6,400 acres
  1. Clinch Mt. WMA
 25,477 acres
  1. ## Fairystone WMA
 5,414 acres
  1. Havens WMA
 9,023 acres
  1. James River WMA
 1,213 acres
  1. Gathright WMA
 13,428 acres
  1. Lake Robertson WMA
 581 acres
  1. Goshen/Little North Mt. WMA
 33,697 acres
  1. Highland WMA
 14,283 acres
  1. Hardware River WMA
 1,175 acres
  1. Rapidan WMA
 10,870 acres
  1. Thompson WMA
 3,963 acres
  1. ** Weston WMA
 271 acres
  1. # C. F. Phelps WMA
 4,540 acres
  1. Lands End WMA (Salem Church tract, squirrel only)
 450 acres
  1. Pettigrew WMA
 934 acres
  1. * Merrimac Farm WMA
 301 acres
  1. ## Big Woods WMA
 4,208 acres
  1. Short Hills WMA
 4,232 acres
  1. Mattaponi WMA
 2,542 acres
  1. * Doe Creek WMA
 637 acres
  1. * Ware Creek WMA
 2,600 acres
  1. Oakley Forest WMA
 2,911 acres
  1. *Mattaponi Bluffs WMA
 470 acres
  1. Robert W. Duncan WMA
 1300 acres
* Some or all hunting by quota hunt drawing (see Public Hunting Quota Hunts).

** Hunting is not allowed.

# Managed hunt opportunities offered (see Public Hunting Managed Hunts & Workshops).

## Antler point restrictions (APR-see Deer Hunting Regulations).