As your eyes adore the scene, your ears are entertained by the songs of nuthatches, phoebes, vireos, and many other birds. After a mile and a half, the trail forks off to Beer Can Alley Section. If you continue on Tin Top, you will run into a few open areas. This is where the Ozark forest meets the prairie. Near the end of the trail, you come to a pasture where crickets, grasshoppers and dragonflies are.
Turkey vultures soar in the sky and American crows sweep up and down.
Over Swan Creek, kingfishers fly as the water slowly flows by. In and around the water, there are minnows, crawdads, frogs and tadpoles, and other creatures. Horseshoe Falls is near the trailhead. If you take Beer Can Alley instead, a breathtaking panorama awaits you on the glades. Nearby there are a number of knobs around 1,200 feet, decorated with trees on top.