Letterboxing is an intriguing “treasure hunt” style outdoor activity. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and post clues to finding the box online on one of several Web sites. However, clues to finding some of the most highly-sought boxes are passed around by word of mouth.

There are about 60,000 active letterboxes listed on LbNA alone. Individual letterboxes usually contain a log book, an often hand-carved rubber stamp and occasionally contain an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox’s stamp on their personal log book, and leave an imprint of their personal stamp on the letterbox’s logbook.

1. Roast To Go 1952 Los Angeles, CA
2. Saw: Horror Classics Series- 3 of 6 Graniteville, VT
3. Love Those Movies: True Lies Los Angeles, CA
4. Libraries Rock!-visit Greece Public Library Rochester, NY
5. Sierra Marmot Carmel, CA
6. Seat with a View Carmel, CA
7. The Purple Flower Middlebury, CT
8. Libraries Rock!-visit Gates Public Library Rochester, NY
9. Libraries Rock!-visit Chili Public Library Rochester, NY
10. Smile: Horror Classics Series- 2 of 6 Randolph, VT
11. The Dragon’s Perch Ellison Bay, WI
12. DFW airport Grapevine, TX

More new letterboxes

1. A Sweet Halloween: Pillsbury's Sugar Cookies Roxbury, CT (3/3)
2. The Owl Of Roxbury Roxbury, CT
3. Tools of the Trade ???, CT
4. CFPA New England Trail Series: Mount Higby Middlefield, CT
5. Along the NET: Middlefield Middlefield, CT
6. An Apple For Teacher Middlefield, CT
7. Rosie’s Letterbox Middlefield, CT
8. Firefighter Appreciation Letterbox Middlefield, CT
9. Seven Dwarfs Save The Princess East Haddam, CT (2/8)
10. The Unal Trail Wofford Heights, CA
11. The shed at the Purcellville Community Center Purcellville, VA
12. Troop 70314 Unicorns Broadlands, VA

If you notice that there seems to be a lot of clues for missing letterboxes in your area that are cluttering up the search results, please click on the question mark in the lower right corner of most of the pages on LbNA to send me a message (or use Help > Contact Us). I’ll take a look and archive old clues.

I tried to do a lot of that type of clean up as part of the move to the new server and I hope the results make it easier to use.