FAIRVIEW LAKES CAMP
Fairview YMCA Camp, Route 624, Sussex County

Directions:

From Route 617. Turn left onto Route 624 and drive 0.7 of a mile and park at Wickapeck Lodge on the right.

You can take a circular walk by heading clockwise from a blocked-off trail just down the road from the parking area. It will bring you back to Camp Wickapeck. Near the end you can take a side walk on the boardwalk through the swampy area.

7 wild turkey when we were there.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney

Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway spruce)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Nyssa sylvatica (tupelo)
Pinus strobus (white pine)
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak)
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)

Shrubs:
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)
Comptonia peregrina (sweet fern)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Ilex verticillata (winterberry holly)
Lindera benzoin (spicebush)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rhododendron maximum (rosebay rhododendron)
Rhododendron periclymenoides (pinxter flower)?
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus hispidus (swamp dewberry)
Toxicodendron vernix (poison sumac)
Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)
Vaccinium pallidum (hillside blueberry)

Vines:
Apios americana (ground nut)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)

Herbs:
Alisma sp. (water plantain)
Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed) *
Aster divaricatus (white wood aster)
Bidens comosa (beggar ticks)
Centaurea maculosa (spotted knapweed) *
Cichorium intybus (chicory) *
Conium maculatum ? *
Eupatorium rugosum (white snake root) *
Impatiens capensis (orange jewelweed) *
Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco)
Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower)
Monotropa uniflora (Indian pipe)
Plantago lanceolata (English plantain) *
Polygonum arifolium (halberd leaved tearthumb) *
Scutellaria lateriflora (maddog skullcap) *
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)
Viola sp. (violet)

Sedges:
Carex folliculata (sedge)
Carex stricta (sedge)
Scirpus atrovirens (dark-green bulrush)

Grasses:
Cinna arundinacea (grass)
Dactylis glomeratus (orchard grass) *
Glyceria striata (meadow mannagrass)
Microstegium vimineum (Japanese stilt grass)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail grass)

Ferns:
Dennstaedtia punctilobula (hay-scented fern)
Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)
Osmunda cinnamomea (cinnamon fern)
Osmunda regalis (royal fern)

Other:
Sphagnum sp. (sphagnum moss)