If you go

Where: Grizzly Island Wildlife Area

GPS: 2548 Grizzly Island Road, Suisun City

Cost/protocol: Access is free; the Lands Pass program has been suspended. All vehicles must stop and register at entrance station.

Hours: Sunrise to sunset Maps: Available at entrance station; PDF at www.dfg.ca.gov/lands.

Open/closed: Vehicle tours, hiking, fishing, open to public through July, then closed to public for wildlife viewing to Feb. 1.

Dogs: They are allowed in July, free; no dogs permitted through June to protect nesting waterfowl.

Distances: 11 miles from Fairfield, 32 miles from Martinez, 39 miles from Walnut Creek, 52 miles from San Rafael, 57 miles from downtown San Francisco, 57 miles from Dublin, 57 miles from Sacramento.

Contact: Grizzly Island Wildlife Area 707-4253828; California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Branch Lands Program, 916-445-0411; www.wildlife.ca.gov — under conservation, click on “public lands.”