Warner Lake - La Sal Mountains LbNA #10675
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Add Location| Owner: | Kat
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| Plant date: | Sep 6, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Moab |
| County: | Grand |
| State: | Utah |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | terpsechorean girl |
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| Last found: | Sep 12, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFOFa |
| Last edited: | Jun 22, 2025 |
Location: Warner Lake Trailhead
Warner Lake - La Sal Mountains above Moab
6/22/25 Box has been cleaned up and a new journal added. It has been lonely for a few years! Please rehide well and cover well with the rock. This letterbox will be under lots of snow all winter. This is a new hiding place, the forestry dept. has updated fencing to help keep mountain bikers on their trail. The letterbox was hidden right where they started working on some fencing.
Difficulty: Beautiful easy hike. Seasonal - late spring, summer, and fall, kid friendly, maybe dogs, but there are a lot of free range cattle wandering these woods.
Planted: Sept. 6, 2004 by Kat & Aspen
Directions: From downtown Moab (center & main sts.) go south on hwy. 191 for about 7 miles. Look for a sign on the right telling you to turn left for the LaSal Loop Rd. Follow until it dead ends (maybe 1/2 mile). Follow LaSal Loop sign and turn right. This is Spanish Valley Dr. Follow this road and it will eventually wind up to the left towards the mountains. It will turn into the LaSal Loop Rd. So just stay on this road all the way to the mountains! As you climb, you will notice spectacular vistas of the red rock canyons below. You will be climbing over 5000ft. higher than town, so you can see over the Moab Rim into Canyonlands clear over to the Henry Mountains in the far distance. After about 10 miles from turning onto this road, start looking for the Warner Lake C.G. sign, which will be the next right turn after the Oowah Lake turnoff. Follow Warner Lake road (dirt, but 2 wheel drive graded) for about 5 miles into the campground. Stay straight and it will dead end at the day hiking parking area. This is where you will begin.
Warner Lake campground got its start in 1933. It was originally a civilian conservation corp. (CCC) camp during the depression years.
In one season there were 200 men living in this camp and they did the work of several years all in one season. They created reservoirs of Warner Lake, Oowah Lake, and Medicine Lake, as well as rebuilt the main roads in the area.
Clues: At the trailhead there is a sign that says "Haystack Mountain - Elevation 11,642" (we are way up high, 9400 ft. On this hike)). You can see tiny Warner Lake ahead of you. Go southeast on this trail along and past the lake. Ahead of you is a fence with a gate opening. Go through the opening and continue straight ahead on the trail. Stay straight on the hiking trail, passing a couple of Ys in the trail. Stay left at the intersections, which will be pretty straight ahead. A little ways up the trail you will come to a little bridge. Cross the bridge, stand on the far edge of the wooden bridge and look towards 90-95 degrees. See the dark green fir, pine trees standing in amongst the Aspen trees? Take about 49 steps to the small grouping of pines. There are 4 trunks close together. In the middle of trunks is a small, heavy rock covering the treasure.
If you are coming from Moab, remember that is is usually about 25 to 30 degrees cooler than town down in the desert. This is a green-aspen and pine-tree-escape from the heat! This drive takes about 45 minutes and is an incredible place for a picnic and a hike. We went there today and enjoyed the leaves changing, and had a snowball fight after the season's first snowstorm on Labor Day weekend.
Weather can change very quickly up there and storms move fast, but slow down and enjoy the views below!
The La Sal Loop Rd. can be taken all the way around from south of Moab, to the north going through Castle Valley and returning on the river road. If you've never been on this scenic byway, you must must must go this way. It is incredibly gorgeous.
Please rehide this box very carefully, have fun, and let me know if you find
Hike length: 0.5 miles
Warner Lake - La Sal Mountains above Moab
6/22/25 Box has been cleaned up and a new journal added. It has been lonely for a few years! Please rehide well and cover well with the rock. This letterbox will be under lots of snow all winter. This is a new hiding place, the forestry dept. has updated fencing to help keep mountain bikers on their trail. The letterbox was hidden right where they started working on some fencing.
Difficulty: Beautiful easy hike. Seasonal - late spring, summer, and fall, kid friendly, maybe dogs, but there are a lot of free range cattle wandering these woods.
Planted: Sept. 6, 2004 by Kat & Aspen
Directions: From downtown Moab (center & main sts.) go south on hwy. 191 for about 7 miles. Look for a sign on the right telling you to turn left for the LaSal Loop Rd. Follow until it dead ends (maybe 1/2 mile). Follow LaSal Loop sign and turn right. This is Spanish Valley Dr. Follow this road and it will eventually wind up to the left towards the mountains. It will turn into the LaSal Loop Rd. So just stay on this road all the way to the mountains! As you climb, you will notice spectacular vistas of the red rock canyons below. You will be climbing over 5000ft. higher than town, so you can see over the Moab Rim into Canyonlands clear over to the Henry Mountains in the far distance. After about 10 miles from turning onto this road, start looking for the Warner Lake C.G. sign, which will be the next right turn after the Oowah Lake turnoff. Follow Warner Lake road (dirt, but 2 wheel drive graded) for about 5 miles into the campground. Stay straight and it will dead end at the day hiking parking area. This is where you will begin.
Warner Lake campground got its start in 1933. It was originally a civilian conservation corp. (CCC) camp during the depression years.
In one season there were 200 men living in this camp and they did the work of several years all in one season. They created reservoirs of Warner Lake, Oowah Lake, and Medicine Lake, as well as rebuilt the main roads in the area.
Clues: At the trailhead there is a sign that says "Haystack Mountain - Elevation 11,642" (we are way up high, 9400 ft. On this hike)). You can see tiny Warner Lake ahead of you. Go southeast on this trail along and past the lake. Ahead of you is a fence with a gate opening. Go through the opening and continue straight ahead on the trail. Stay straight on the hiking trail, passing a couple of Ys in the trail. Stay left at the intersections, which will be pretty straight ahead. A little ways up the trail you will come to a little bridge. Cross the bridge, stand on the far edge of the wooden bridge and look towards 90-95 degrees. See the dark green fir, pine trees standing in amongst the Aspen trees? Take about 49 steps to the small grouping of pines. There are 4 trunks close together. In the middle of trunks is a small, heavy rock covering the treasure.
If you are coming from Moab, remember that is is usually about 25 to 30 degrees cooler than town down in the desert. This is a green-aspen and pine-tree-escape from the heat! This drive takes about 45 minutes and is an incredible place for a picnic and a hike. We went there today and enjoyed the leaves changing, and had a snowball fight after the season's first snowstorm on Labor Day weekend.
Weather can change very quickly up there and storms move fast, but slow down and enjoy the views below!
The La Sal Loop Rd. can be taken all the way around from south of Moab, to the north going through Castle Valley and returning on the river road. If you've never been on this scenic byway, you must must must go this way. It is incredibly gorgeous.
Please rehide this box very carefully, have fun, and let me know if you find
Hike length: 0.5 miles