Directions:   The park road then turns sharply downhill through a switchback, and after 0.4 miles you come to a small metal bridge on the right, now closed to all vehicles. Just past the bridge the park road intersects with PA 18, the other major entrance to the park. Park your car near the metal bridge (there is a parking lot nearby, or you can park along the road), and walk across the bridge and turn right. This trail, called "Lake Trail" is probably the best birding location in the park. The trail parallels Little Traverse Creek for about 0.75 mile, enters a heavily wooded hillside, and eventually ends up at the lake opposite the "beach" described above. The first mile or so of the trail is most productive, and is the best place in the park (besides the Wildflower Reserve) for Cerulean Warbler. Wood Thrush nest here, as do a pair of Louisiana Waterthush. Acadian Flycatcher and Common Yellowthroat are also in evidence throughout summer. Just before crossing another small bridge (about 0.5 mile from where you parked), the trail opens up into a grassy field with a few very large sycamore trees. This area is the best spot to begin listening for the waterthrushes, and Yellow-throated Warbler is also quite reliable in the sycamores in spring. Many other birds abound, such as Wood Duck, Belted Kingfisher, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Red-eyed, Warbling, and Yellow-throated vireos, Scarlet Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Baltimore Oriole, and Indigo Bunting. Good fallouts in spring have brought in excess of 20 species of warbler to this trail.