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About Letterboxing

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.

Letterboxer stamping into their logbook

What’s New?

  1. Eclipse Over TX Liberty Hill, TX
  2. Books on Springs Yale, MI
  3. Happy Hedgehog Sparta, TN
  4. Be A Blessing Scituate, RI
  5. Cemetery Flower #2 Tumbull, CT
  6. Cemetery Flower #1 monroe, CT
  7. ROAR SOME Monroe, CT
  8. A Toothy Smile Tallahassee, FL
  9. Finding Olaf #7 Tallahassee, FL
  10. Phoenix Tallahassee, FL
  11. 2024 Eclipse - Eyes To The Skies: Rancho Mirage Observatory Rancho Mirage, CA
  12. Christmas Memories Old Lyme, CT (3)
More new letterboxes

Most Recently Found

  1. Fishy Catch Thompson, CT, CT
  2. Fishy Catch Thompson, CT, CT
  3. Copper Hall Oshkosh, WI
  4. Southford Falls and Firetower Oxford, CT
  5. Mini Stephens City, VA
  6. Picking Apples with Sarah Hitch-hiker Hostel ???, MA
  7. The Golden Compass Winter Quest: Pratt's Brook Acton, MA (4/4)
  8. "Moving Day" Acton, MA
  9. Happy 75th Acton, MA
  10. X Marks the Spot? Sanderson, TX
  11. Camelot #3-&-a-half Cheshire, CT
  12. Waterfalls thirty-four Cheshire, CT

Tip of the Day

Once you’ve found a letterbox, please make sure to seal it back up so that it‘s watertight, then re-hide it so that it is completely hidden from view. I try to sprinkle a few leaves over the hiding spot to make it looks as natural as possible.

Image of the Day

Image of the Day
Near Canopy Rock letterbox, October 2012 - photo by DrewFamily