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Black Rock Dragon LbNA #14325

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 9, 2005
Location:
City:Thomaston
County:Litchfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Rubaduc
Found by: Team Rogue
Last found:Jul 17, 2022
Status:FFFFOFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Apr 9, 2005
I've been told that some of the clues in the beginning of this posting no longer work but that you should look for this box between boxes 4 & 5 of the Tribal Art Series.

One box on the Mattatuck Trail running through Black Rock State Park located on Route 6. There will be an entrance fee on weekends during the summer. Should take an hour and a half round trip for this box. I believe it's just under three miles. Might be too difficult for young children because of the many ups and downs. Ice and snow will make it more difficult also.

This is the third box in the Magical, Mystical, Mythical creatures series carved by Talking Turtle, ring leader of the infamous Alphabet Bandits.

Park on the left as soon as you get past the guard booth and walk up the road towards the beach. After the dressing rooms turn right past handicapped parking and across the field to a large metal bridge. Cross the bridge and immediately turn left, crossing a smaller bridge. Walk straight ahead along what appears to be a gully, you should start seeing blue blazes and high on a tree is a sign. Stay straight following the Black Rock outlook trail. At the top of the gully watch for a red trail to the right just before a steep rocky section of the blue trail. This trail to the top of the rock is well worth a look see but to get the box go right on red which follows along a gully. Stay on red even when you see some large grayish blue blazes and eventually you break out of the forest into a small bowl like clearing. Follow the stream bed back into the woods, ignoring a couple of orange blazes and when you come to a T with a red arrow pointing left, you want to go right, again following the blue trail. There will be lots of ups and downs with one especially rocky climb that would be a problem in ice and snow. You'll cross a few streams or dry beds, pass through one stone wall and then start to watch for red over white blazes marking the boundary for the Waterbury reservoirs. As soon as you see these markers there will be an 8 foot stump on the left side of the trail. Walk to the double blue blazed tree ahead of you, look right to see a tree on the ground (in the field, which becomes quite overgrown in the summer) resting on it's splintered stump. Hiding in this stump under a river rock is the Black Rock Dragon.

Cover well and go back the way you came being especially careful not to miss the red trail turn off, although this is another opportunity to go to the top of The Rock.