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Bowers Spring LbNA #18258

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 17, 2005
Location: Flanagan Road
City:Harvard
County:Worcester
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:Songbird & Eagle Eye
Found by: Rock Island
Last found:Apr 17, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFaFFFFFFF
Last edited:Sep 17, 2005
Placed January 6, 2002 by Birkie Bob
Adopted by Songbird 9/17/05

NOTE: New stamp and logbook but same location and directions. You decide if this counts as an additional find if you already found the original Bowers Spring box.

Trail Advisories:
- If it's cold bring your ice skates.
- Dog and horse friendly area.

Directions:
From Rt 495 take Rt 117 west for 1.2 miles. Turn right onto Harvard Road. Go 2 miles then turn left onto Flanagan Road. Watch for the yellow bar gates on your left.

Clues:
Proceed past the gate, down the crumbly pavement road, heading west. At the 6x8 post the road splits, the left following a line of trees. Take the right road, heading in a northerly direction down the hill through a field. When you see the granite slab spillway on your left you are at the east end of the smaller pond. Continue on, passing a path going left which passes between the 2 ponds.

When you have reached the eastern-most point of the larger pond, before you have crossed the trap rock spillway, orient yourself such that: The triangular rock in the pond is at 240 degrees and the large iron cylinder lying on its side in the woods is at 30 degrees.

From this point proceed on the path at 70 degrees. This will bring you out into a field dotted with pines. Follow this straight path across the field.

When you reach the corner where the stone walls meet, look for a birdhouse several feet into the woods and on the left. You will see the yellow-blazed trail ahead of you as it goes on into the woods. From the opening in the stone wall, proceed down this trail at approx 100 degrees, counting 44 steps to a "V" tree, then another 12 steps to a small cairn of rocks. From this cairn sight the stone wall to your right at 200 degrees and walk 25 steps to a place in the wall where the stones are piled up in a large cairn. There are breaks in the wall on each side. Standing on the north side of the cairn, the box springs from within, on the lower right side.