Fort Tuthill LbNA #7547
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Add Location| Owner: | Azroadie
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| Plant date: | Mar 17, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Flagstaff |
| County: | Coconino |
| State: | Arizona |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Sandra Leesmith |
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| Last found: | May 5, 2020 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 12, 2016 |
Difficulty: Walk & clues – easy
Walk time: about 20 minutes one way
Stamp hand-carved
Status: Alive and well on July 9, 2016
The box is in Fort Tuthill County Park on the southern edge of Flagstaff. From I-17 take Exit 337 and drive west a very short distance to Beulah Blvd. (St. Hwy. 89A). Go straight across Beulah, enter the park, and keep to the right on the one-way road. When the road turns left and heads west, drive straight to end of paved road to the large paved parking lot on the right and park by the trailhead sign.
Walk north on the Urban Trail (starts next to the trailhead lot) which is a wide raised cinder & gravel trail that is an abandoned railroad grade. It was a logging railroad constructed starting in 1902 by the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and closed down in 1966. You will walk past stables on your right. After crossing a dirt road with wood railings, you will see a trail sign and map on your left for the Soldiers Trail. Go west on Soldiers Trail which starts behind the sign. Follow the green narrow trail markers with arrows on them and count them as you go. After a while the trail goes along a barbwire fence for a little distance, then at a stump turns left back towards the park. After the 4th green trail marker, the trail starts uphill (it has been reported to me that there are now only 3 markers). It then approaches a barbwire fence. There is an old short 2-feet-high split tree stump next to the fence. Seven steps west is a large live pine tree. From the red & white fence post next to this tree go off trail west along the fence line counting the fence posts as you go. The box is at the 10th fence post about 3 feet south in a small upright rock outcrop under a rock. Be alert for snakes.
Please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag) and put all of it INSIDE the box. Please rehide the box well under the rock and cover it with some plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Contact me if the box needs attention:
http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/azroadie.html
This letterbox is in my “I-17 Series”. The other boxes in the series are: “Agua Fria”, “Pioneer”, and “Red Tank”.
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .
Walk time: about 20 minutes one way
Stamp hand-carved
Status: Alive and well on July 9, 2016
The box is in Fort Tuthill County Park on the southern edge of Flagstaff. From I-17 take Exit 337 and drive west a very short distance to Beulah Blvd. (St. Hwy. 89A). Go straight across Beulah, enter the park, and keep to the right on the one-way road. When the road turns left and heads west, drive straight to end of paved road to the large paved parking lot on the right and park by the trailhead sign.
Walk north on the Urban Trail (starts next to the trailhead lot) which is a wide raised cinder & gravel trail that is an abandoned railroad grade. It was a logging railroad constructed starting in 1902 by the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company and closed down in 1966. You will walk past stables on your right. After crossing a dirt road with wood railings, you will see a trail sign and map on your left for the Soldiers Trail. Go west on Soldiers Trail which starts behind the sign. Follow the green narrow trail markers with arrows on them and count them as you go. After a while the trail goes along a barbwire fence for a little distance, then at a stump turns left back towards the park. After the 4th green trail marker, the trail starts uphill (it has been reported to me that there are now only 3 markers). It then approaches a barbwire fence. There is an old short 2-feet-high split tree stump next to the fence. Seven steps west is a large live pine tree. From the red & white fence post next to this tree go off trail west along the fence line counting the fence posts as you go. The box is at the 10th fence post about 3 feet south in a small upright rock outcrop under a rock. Be alert for snakes.
Please be sure the contents are double ziplocked when you put them back in the box (i.e. the stamp is in a ziploc, the book is in a ziploc, and the two are in the larger ziploc bag) and put all of it INSIDE the box. Please rehide the box well under the rock and cover it with some plant debris so that it can not be seen from any direction.
Contact me if the box needs attention:
http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/azroadie.html
This letterbox is in my “I-17 Series”. The other boxes in the series are: “Agua Fria”, “Pioneer”, and “Red Tank”.
If you live in Arizona or New Mexico or have an interest in letterboxes in those states, you are invited to join the Letterboxing Southwest Discussion Group. Go here to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LetterboxingSouthwest/ .