The Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge is part of the United States National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) System, located along a twenty-mile (30 km) section of coastline from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach, Florida, along State Road A1A.

The 900 acre (3.6 km2) refuge was established in 1991, to protect the loggerhead and green sea turtles.

Since 2012 the Archie Carr NWR is administered as part of the Everglades Headwaters NWR Complex, along with Pelican Island NWR, Lake Wales Ridge NWR, and the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area,[1] through a partnership with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (a nonprofit turtle conservation group founded by Dr. Archie Carr himself) and Archie Carr Working Group.

Three centers within the sanctuary are run by Brevard County under the aegis of the restrictions established by the federal government.

Scientists and researchers are studying the impacts of sea level rise on this ecosystem.