Although only one-third of the 21-acre Mount Carmel National Park is a nature reserve, the entire park is dedicated to nature conservation, and specifically to maintaining the Mediterranean habitats of Israel. The mountainous Carmel ridge, with summits more than 500 meters above sea level, is a fine place to study both nature and history. The most striking aspect of Mount Carmel is its typical Mediterranean scrub forest. As a rule, the thicket that grows under the kermes oaks is so tangled that people cannot walk between the trees, but the park staff has blazed some trails.
The Carmel Mountain Range also has one of the only natural populations of Aleppo pines in Israel.