Eagle Hill Bog

Roughly one-third of the 2,800-acre Natural Area is composed of raised, heath-covered bogs. These bogs are also called heaths after the heath family of plants to which many of the most common shrubs belong. The best place in the Park to see a heath-covered surface of a bog is from the accessible boardwalk at Eagle Hill Bog, directly across from the Park entrance and one and six tenths miles down the Glensevern Road. Wheelchair accessible.

Resting benches and interpretive panels make the walk more enjoyable. An observation deck on Eagle Hill provides an overview of the area and is connected to the wooden pathway by a short section of trail. The pathway offers an excellent "dry" opportunity to explore the bog and to view the vegetation there.

Leatherleaf, sheep laurel, pale laurel, bog rosemary, Labrador tea, winterberry and sweetgale grow as low shrubs among the many sphagnum mosses. At the bog borders, hoary alder and rhodora grow within the ring of tall spruce and balsam trees. Among the shrubs, and particularly in the wetter places, are cranberries, pitcher plants, sundew, cotton grasses, sedges, and orchids. Where it is drier, lichens are abundant, especially reindeer and red-tipped moss. Plants peculiar to Campobello's bogs, and to others on the mainland within reach of the frequent fogs that roll in from the sea, are cloudberry, crowberry, and a grass called deer hair. Other oceanic species include bog goldenrod and, among the mosses, two species of Sphagnum.

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