Crown Lands Peak is the highest point of Cockpit Country (2453ft) and there are some excellent views of Cockpit Country landscape as you drive up the hill through the community of Wilson's Run.
The Crown Lands Forest Trail is one of four roads that penetrate into Cockpit Country (the others are at Quickstep, Accompong, Windsor). Located north of the district known by the name of Look Behind and east of Me No Sen You No Come, the road began its life as a donkey track, one path for the donkey and one for the man walking beside it. The track follows a fault line, so hiking is relatively level.
Plant lovers, will see excellent examples of Cockpit Country epiphytes, particularly the large Aechmea and Hohenbergia tank bromeliads, nearly all of which are endemic to Jamaica.
For bird lovers, Cockpit Country hosts 27 of Jamaica's 28 endemic landbirds (the highest number of endemics anywhere in the insular Caribbean).
For butterfly lovers, we might see Atlantea pantoni, whose global range is restricted entirely to Cockpit Country.
For mosquito lovers, Jamaica has 76 species, 25 of which are endemic to the island! Cockpit Country is the biodiversity hotspot for Jamaica- thanks, in part, to the presence of its wonderfully diverse flying insect populations. Be careful when you squash that mozzie!
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