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Grinning Ninny LbNA #1222

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 27, 2003
Location:
City:Hamden
County:New Haven
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:butterfly
Found by: Traveln Turtle
Last found:Mar 24, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFaFFFFFaFFFFFF
Last edited:Apr 27, 2003
The "Grinning Ninny" box is so named because of the stamp's image, a face with big round eyes and a big toothy grin.

Difficulty: medium, mostly on trails, round trip from parking area is 1.3 miles.

Location:Brooksvale Recreation Park, Hamden, CT.

The park is on the West side of Brooksvale Avenue. Enter the driveway with the sign that says "Veteran's Memorial Building". Drive all the way to the end, and park in the small parking lot. Before (or after) going to find the box, you may want to visit the geese at the pond just East of the parking lot. To the East of the pond, there are sheep, goats, etc. in fenced in areas (goats! awesome!). On the South side of the red barn, weather permitting, ther may be rabbits on display (rabbits! Way cool!).

But the real action is in the forest to the West. From the North end of the pond, go West through the open area to the hilltop. Follow the trail North-West. It runs roughly parallel to a small stream. Whenever you get to a junction, keep to the left to stay near the stream. When you have gone about 1/4 mile, the trail crosses the stream. You climb a long hill (going South-West), and on reaching the top, another trail cuts accross. Turn right (North-West). (Turning left is a short cut back to the parking lot.) Walk down the gentle slope to the place where you cross the stream again (yes, the same stream). It may be dried up, but you will recognize it by the decrepit concrete pipe cutting across the trail. Where the trail curves toward the South-West, cut into the woods and go due North (magnetic) some 200 feet or less to a stone wall. When you get to the West end (where it turns right), continue at 293 degrees up the hillside to where two stone walls form a corner. There is a gap in the wall just North of the corner. About 19 feet from the corner, direction; 313 degrees, there is a tree about 8 inches in diameter.

The box is under a rock about 5 feet before the tree. This rock sticks up about 3 inches higher than those surrounding it. Remove the smaller rocks from it's South-West side to expose the Grinning Ninny box.

You should have no trouble finding your way back to your car from there.

Don't forget to search out Butterfly's Adventure at Brookvale letterboxes nearby!