Art Around the Lake LbNA #16801
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Add Location| Owner: | Sojourner
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| Plant date: | Jul 24, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Fairfield |
| County: | Fairfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | Team Rogue (2) |
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| Last found: | Oct 17, 2025 |
| Status: | FFFFFaFFFFFFFaFFOFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 18, 2025 |
For some of you, this may be your first experience with Letterboxing, so before you begin your search today, I’d like to convey to you some aspects of Letterboxing that I personally feel are important.
Be discreet while searching for a letterbox if other people are around. You may need to postpone retrieving a box if you can’t do it without being seen. Remember - not everyone is “letterbox-friendly” and you should not jeopardize someone else’s letterbox for the sake of getting a stamp! When you have successfully retrieved it, carry the box away from its hiding place to stamp-in so as not to reveal the hiding place to passers-by or to draw attention to what you are doing. Make sure you are discreet when unpacking the contents of the box and stamping-in. Discretion and stealth are also required when you return the letterbox to its hiding place.
Children are often enthusiastic to “do it themselves”, but adults should always oversee their activities and that they close up the box properly and re-hide it well.
Care must be taken in both finding and planting letterboxes. When looking for a letterbox, remember to leave the area just as, or better than you found it. If you look under a rock, replace the rock back where you found it. Don't pull out plants or rip up the ground looking for a letterbox. Avoid trampling vegetation while searching for the letterbox – if the box is off-trail, try not to create a “social trail” by following where previous boxers walked, it’s damaging plus it’s a dead giveaway to the location! Don’t tear apart that stone wall that has withstood hundreds of years of time to find the box.
After stamping-in and carefully closing up a letterbox, re-hide it as well or better than when you originally found it. Again, discretion at this time is very important. It is a good idea to cover the box with a handful of dead leaves, anchor the box with a flat rock so that an inquisitive animal can’t run off with it, and then sprinkle a few more leaves or twigs on top so it looks natural to passers-by. Look at it from different angles before you leave to make sure no plastic is showing. Never leave a letterbox out in plain sight! A well hidden letterbox helps ensure its longevity!
Letterboxing will take you to many new places – places that you may have never known about had it not been for letterboxing! It could be a short walk or a long, strenuous hike – there’s something for everyone’s preference and ability. Be sure to read the clues before you set off to ensure that it’s a suitable one for you.
Some clues are written simply and straightforward, some are more vague and require some thought and interpretation. Others are written in the form of puzzles and ciphers to challenge those who enjoy that sort of approach. Again, there’s something for everyone.
Whichever path letterboxing may take you, please respect it, enjoy it and have fun!
(taken from AQ and Letterboxing.info)
Thank you and now on with the clues! :-)
Two more carvings depicting the artwork of Keith Haring.
Location: Lkae Mgeoahn, on 170 acres of open space owned by the Town of Fairfield. It is a popular dog-walking park, more specifically, a popular dog-swimming park!
Take Route 58, south of the Merritt Parkway. Turn east onto Tahmore Drive and you will come to the parking lot of the Park at the end where it intersects Morehouse Highway.
Difficulty: easy to moderate, with some rocky and rooty walking.
Time: About an hour or two – longer if your dog likes to swim!!!
Dogs: definitely OK, but please make sure to pick up after them!
Other: BYO markers.
A map of the area: https://cms3.revize.com/revize/fairfield/Document%20Center/Service/Conservation%20Department/Lake%20Mohegan%20Open%20Space%20-%20Fairlfield,%20CT.pdf
*******THE CLUES HAVE BEEN TOTALLY REVISED AS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CHANGES TO THE LANDMARKS SINCE FIRST PLANTING THESE BOXES.*******
From the NE corner of the main parking lot at the map-and bulletin-boards, follow the RED trail northwards along the lake.
Take the red access trail eastwards to join the YELLOW trail. Continue on Yellow to marker Y37. Here, site 180* and take 40-45 steps to Box 1 in a small cave covered with bark next to a large rock. You’ll be somewhat camouflaged by bushes as you retrieve the box, but please use stealth and re-hide it well.
Continue on Yellow to marker Y41. Turn left and take the 3rd left-hand trail (Red) and cross the stream by the pond. Turn left, following Red up a small hill and then across the large foot-bridge to the opposite side of the river. Go south on Red, and as you pass under the power-lines, take the ORANGE trail. You will no longer be alongside the river. Orange takes you to a (different) parking lot. Turn left to the bulletin boards and walk uphill on the trail about 60 PACES to a small wall on the left a little way off-trail. Count 5 steps westwards along the southern side of the wall to Box #2. This trail is busier than Box 1, and more exposed, so please use extra care and re-hide the box well.
Return downhill to the parking lot, going south, passing the picnic area and port-a-potty, and at the southern end join the Yellow trail which parallels the lake southwards and ends up at the lot where you parked.
Be sure to check the logbook for a bonus clue!
As always, thank you for looking for my letterboxes, enjoy the walk, please stamp-in discreetly and re-hide carefully, camouflaging box with leaves or debris so that it cannot be seen. And let me know how your search went! You may log your finds into LbNA and AtlasQuest.
- 1 – STEALTH:
Be discreet while searching for a letterbox if other people are around. You may need to postpone retrieving a box if you can’t do it without being seen. Remember - not everyone is “letterbox-friendly” and you should not jeopardize someone else’s letterbox for the sake of getting a stamp! When you have successfully retrieved it, carry the box away from its hiding place to stamp-in so as not to reveal the hiding place to passers-by or to draw attention to what you are doing. Make sure you are discreet when unpacking the contents of the box and stamping-in. Discretion and stealth are also required when you return the letterbox to its hiding place.
- 2 – LETTERBOXING WITH CHILDREN:
Children are often enthusiastic to “do it themselves”, but adults should always oversee their activities and that they close up the box properly and re-hide it well.
- 3 – RESPECT THE ENVIRONMENT:
Care must be taken in both finding and planting letterboxes. When looking for a letterbox, remember to leave the area just as, or better than you found it. If you look under a rock, replace the rock back where you found it. Don't pull out plants or rip up the ground looking for a letterbox. Avoid trampling vegetation while searching for the letterbox – if the box is off-trail, try not to create a “social trail” by following where previous boxers walked, it’s damaging plus it’s a dead giveaway to the location! Don’t tear apart that stone wall that has withstood hundreds of years of time to find the box.
- 4 – RE-HIDE WELL:
After stamping-in and carefully closing up a letterbox, re-hide it as well or better than when you originally found it. Again, discretion at this time is very important. It is a good idea to cover the box with a handful of dead leaves, anchor the box with a flat rock so that an inquisitive animal can’t run off with it, and then sprinkle a few more leaves or twigs on top so it looks natural to passers-by. Look at it from different angles before you leave to make sure no plastic is showing. Never leave a letterbox out in plain sight! A well hidden letterbox helps ensure its longevity!
- 5 – HAVE FUN!:
Letterboxing will take you to many new places – places that you may have never known about had it not been for letterboxing! It could be a short walk or a long, strenuous hike – there’s something for everyone’s preference and ability. Be sure to read the clues before you set off to ensure that it’s a suitable one for you.
Some clues are written simply and straightforward, some are more vague and require some thought and interpretation. Others are written in the form of puzzles and ciphers to challenge those who enjoy that sort of approach. Again, there’s something for everyone.
Whichever path letterboxing may take you, please respect it, enjoy it and have fun!
(taken from AQ and Letterboxing.info)
Thank you and now on with the clues! :-)
Two more carvings depicting the artwork of Keith Haring.
Location: Lkae Mgeoahn, on 170 acres of open space owned by the Town of Fairfield. It is a popular dog-walking park, more specifically, a popular dog-swimming park!
Take Route 58, south of the Merritt Parkway. Turn east onto Tahmore Drive and you will come to the parking lot of the Park at the end where it intersects Morehouse Highway.
Difficulty: easy to moderate, with some rocky and rooty walking.
Time: About an hour or two – longer if your dog likes to swim!!!
Dogs: definitely OK, but please make sure to pick up after them!
Other: BYO markers.
A map of the area: https://cms3.revize.com/revize/fairfield/Document%20Center/Service/Conservation%20Department/Lake%20Mohegan%20Open%20Space%20-%20Fairlfield,%20CT.pdf
*******THE CLUES HAVE BEEN TOTALLY REVISED AS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CHANGES TO THE LANDMARKS SINCE FIRST PLANTING THESE BOXES.*******
From the NE corner of the main parking lot at the map-and bulletin-boards, follow the RED trail northwards along the lake.
Take the red access trail eastwards to join the YELLOW trail. Continue on Yellow to marker Y37. Here, site 180* and take 40-45 steps to Box 1 in a small cave covered with bark next to a large rock. You’ll be somewhat camouflaged by bushes as you retrieve the box, but please use stealth and re-hide it well.
Continue on Yellow to marker Y41. Turn left and take the 3rd left-hand trail (Red) and cross the stream by the pond. Turn left, following Red up a small hill and then across the large foot-bridge to the opposite side of the river. Go south on Red, and as you pass under the power-lines, take the ORANGE trail. You will no longer be alongside the river. Orange takes you to a (different) parking lot. Turn left to the bulletin boards and walk uphill on the trail about 60 PACES to a small wall on the left a little way off-trail. Count 5 steps westwards along the southern side of the wall to Box #2. This trail is busier than Box 1, and more exposed, so please use extra care and re-hide the box well.
Return downhill to the parking lot, going south, passing the picnic area and port-a-potty, and at the southern end join the Yellow trail which parallels the lake southwards and ends up at the lot where you parked.
Be sure to check the logbook for a bonus clue!
As always, thank you for looking for my letterboxes, enjoy the walk, please stamp-in discreetly and re-hide carefully, camouflaging box with leaves or debris so that it cannot be seen. And let me know how your search went! You may log your finds into LbNA and AtlasQuest.