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Otter River State Park Letterbox LbNA #11242

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 25, 2004
Location:
City:Baldwinville/ Winchendon
County:Worcester
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:Amy & Jay
Found by: Arf!
Last found:Sep 17, 2015
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Sep 18, 2015
This box was originally planted by Amy and Jay. Betsy @ the Summit adopted all of their surviving boxes, but this one is way out of her area. She thanks making a difference for adopting it.

Amy and Jay wrote:
The Otter River State Park Letterbox is located in the Otter River State Forest on Route 202 in Baldwinville. You can easily get to this letterbox from Route 2. The walk is about a mile and in a loop from start to finish, so no backtracking!

When you get to Otter River State Park, you want to park in the parking lot by the Beaman Pond Camping Area. Enter the camping area on foot and bear left. Follow that paved campground road out of the campground (it will turn to a dirt road and there will be a gate blocking cars from going this way). Take a right onto the dirt road.

Follow the dirt road and you will soon pass a pond on your right (look to the left for the interesting train bridge crossing the swampy area). After you pass the pond, there will be a narrow path on your right entering the woods. This path follows along the pond for a while and is marked with a yellow patch on the tree.

After passing the pond, the path follows a small stream into the woods. When you come to posts numbered 9, 10, 11, and 12 stop. Stand in front of post #10 with your back to the stream and the post. Look up the hill and slightly to the right. You will see a pine tree with a blue plastic arrow on it. Behind that tree is an Army Corp of Engineers marker. And to the right of that marker (looking up the hill) is a small hemlock tree. This letterbox is under that small Hemlock. Stamp in and rehide VERY WELL.

Return to the trail and continue the way you were going. You will very soon come to a 4 way intersection - go straight. Soon you will come out of the nature trail into the Beaman Pond Camping area by site 58. Take a right onto the campground road and follow it straight back to the parking lot!