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Big Pocono Wildlife
The top of Camelback Mountain is a unique forest called
a scrub oak shrubland. Wind-dwarfed gray birch, quaking
aspen, red pine and scrub oak cover the mountaintop, with
no tree over twenty feet tall. Lowbush blueberry, sweet fern
and mountain laurel grow under the short trees. Down slope,
the forest offers more shade with mixed hardwoods including
oak, maple, and hickory trees.
Portions of South Trail are lined with blueberry and mountain
laurel, which bloom in mid-June. On the north side of the
mountain, North Trail Lower Loop Trail on the old railroad
grade passes through a rock cut and offers hikers a glimpse of
a hemlock and rhododendron glen, which is surprisingly cool
on hot summer days. Rhododendron blooms in late July.
