El Corazon LbNA #3446
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Add Location| Owner: | BlackA
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| Plant date: | Aug 22, 1998 |
| Location: | 392 Montague Road |
| City: | Wendell |
| County: | Franklin |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | WizPurr |
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| Last found: | Aug 31, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOFFF |
| Last edited: | Dec 13, 2015 |
This letterbox was the first letterbox placed in Massachusetts (after the Live & Breathe Smithsonian article). El Corazon is also the first of three letterboxes placed on this trail. The other two boxes are Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Letterbox Vincent. All three of these stamps were originally carved and planted by Bonita, one of the pioneers of letterboxing in Massachusetts. El Corzon is the only original Bonita carved stamp on this trail.
El Corazon Letterbox
ESTABLISHED: August 22, 1998
CLUE DIFFICULTY: Easy
TERRAIN: Easy
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day there is a $5.00 parking fee.
Begin at the main parking lot across from Ruggles Pond. At the far end of the lot you'll see white blazes on trees, which mark the Metacomet Monadnock trail. Follow the white blazes, hiking downhill. Pass a hut on your right, (beware of the Minotaur). Shortly after passing the hut, you will cross two wooden foot bridges, look for a large rock on the right hand side of the trail,(it's about 61 steps from the second foot bridge). Look behind the rock for a fallen tree. Climb through the pucker brush and look for a rock under the south end of the roots system of the fallen tree....here El Corazon beats on.
You can either back track to your car or go for a longer loop hike to find Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Letterbox Vincent.
Many thanks to Deanne, aka, the Lazy Letterboxer and Dave, aka, the Letterboxing Ham, who recovered the box in July 2007 from under a five-foot pile of broken branches, uprooted trees, and brush--caused by a hurrican. They relocated it in a nearby spot and sent me the revised clue (above). Hats off to these Mass. letterboxing heroes, for saving the very first Mass. box! - Bonnie
El Corazon is dedicated to Gerard Manley Hopkins ("My heart in hiding stirred for a bird.")
El Corazon Letterbox
ESTABLISHED: August 22, 1998
CLUE DIFFICULTY: Easy
TERRAIN: Easy
Between Memorial Day and Labor Day there is a $5.00 parking fee.
Begin at the main parking lot across from Ruggles Pond. At the far end of the lot you'll see white blazes on trees, which mark the Metacomet Monadnock trail. Follow the white blazes, hiking downhill. Pass a hut on your right, (beware of the Minotaur). Shortly after passing the hut, you will cross two wooden foot bridges, look for a large rock on the right hand side of the trail,(it's about 61 steps from the second foot bridge). Look behind the rock for a fallen tree. Climb through the pucker brush and look for a rock under the south end of the roots system of the fallen tree....here El Corazon beats on.
You can either back track to your car or go for a longer loop hike to find Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Letterbox Vincent.
Many thanks to Deanne, aka, the Lazy Letterboxer and Dave, aka, the Letterboxing Ham, who recovered the box in July 2007 from under a five-foot pile of broken branches, uprooted trees, and brush--caused by a hurrican. They relocated it in a nearby spot and sent me the revised clue (above). Hats off to these Mass. letterboxing heroes, for saving the very first Mass. box! - Bonnie
El Corazon is dedicated to Gerard Manley Hopkins ("My heart in hiding stirred for a bird.")