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Mountain Laurel Blooming Beside River Loop Trail

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Mountain laurel blooms in a former hemlock forest along the River Loop trail. Most of the hemlocks on this trail are dead from Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, though more than a few do still survive as of 2018.