The Camel Trail has 16 miles of traffic free cycling along which you can enjoy a variety of wildlife, flora and forna. The trail covers an area from Padstow to Pooley' Bridge along some of Cornwall's most beautiful countryside. If you are interested in the local wildlife or forna then you are sure to enjoy a trip along the Camel Trail. There is an extraordinary array of wildlife to be appreciated along the Camel trail. Look for signs of secretive mammals such as fox, badger, rabbit, deer and rarities like otter and greater horseshoe bat.
Coppiced hazel is the home of the dormouse.
A few wild service trees have sprung up among the oak, spindle and sycamore. Thistle seeds provide food for the goldfinches. In 1899 the line from Wadebridge to Padstow was laid, starting the route of the Atlantic Coast Express which carried thousands of holiday-makers to the west country until the line's closure in 1969. Perhaps the most famous of those travellers was the Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman, for whom the railway, the river and the estuary were a great source of inspiration. The Camel Trail is part of National Route 3 that forms a 6,500-mile web of cycle ways through out the country.