This site is known to local birders as one of the top areas within the St. Joe city limits to look for migrating spring warblers. In recent years 24 warbler species have been recorded here including Ovenbird, Black-and-white, Tennessee, Orange-crowned, Nashville, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Magnolia, Yellow, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Green, and Wilson's. The uncommon Golden-winged, Kentucky, Bay-breasted, Mourning, Blackburnian, Yellow-throated (pines across from parking) & Canada have also been seen here along with such rarities as the Connecticut and Hooded Warblers. The peak time for finding migrating warblers in this vicinity is the first three weeks of May.

Part of the extensive 26-mile Saint Joseph Parkway system, this 45 acre mature, upland, oak-hickory forest is locally referred to by birders as “The Old Girl Scout Camp Area”, a name derived from an abandoned camp which once existed here.

It is best accessed from either the west via Saint Joseph Avenue/Hwy. 59, or from the southwest via the Northwest Parkway. Via the west, from St. Joseph Avenue, directly across from the entrance to Krug Park on St. Joseph Avenue, go east on NW Parkway ¼ mile to Ferndale Ave. on your left. Via the Northwest Parkway from the southwest, from the point it passes beneath Lover's Lane overpass, go 7/10ths mile to Ferndale Avenue on your right.

A 10-foot wide paved trail traverses a half mile through this forest and is the northern end of a much more extensive parkway walking and biking trail to the south and east. The trail though paved, rises 80 feet in a quarter mile from the parking area described. Someone athletic in a sports wheel chair, or someone in a regular wheel chair with assistance could make it. Without assistance, the grade on this part of the trail would be too steep to meet ADA guidelines.