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Great park to take a little hike on the trail! I came looking for native plant species to collect and raise. Sadly the surrounding vegetation is mostly poison ivy and dogwood, there is quite a bit of western ironweed as well. If you go to the disc golf course and wander along the edges there, there are some wildflowers hidden away in the back. I caught glimpses of quite a few lizards, probably anoles but they moved far too fast for me to make them out. Quite a diverse array of insect life, I was particularly surprised to see the biggest tiger swallowtail I've ever seen in the hidden wildflower areas. There are however a metric ton of mosquitos along the paved path, the moist weather lately probably has not helped, a lot of them looked like aedes albopictus or aedes aegypti which prefer to feed on humans and can carry disease so make sure you wear insect repellant!