Gallows Hill Boxes LbNA #20754
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Mar 11, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Redding |
| County: | Fairfield |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | Bandaid  |
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| Found by: | Team Rogue (2) |
| Last found: | Feb 20, 2023 |
| Status: | FFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Mar 11, 2006 |
In the winter of 1779, troops under the command of General Israel Putnam were encamped in these woods. The “Fifth Connecticut” is one of the trails and it refers to a Colonial regiment comprised of men from Redding and Ridgefield. The “Noose” trail refers to the hanging nearby of a Redcoat spy – thus Gallows Hill.
Directions: Gallows Hill Road is a twisty steep road between Route 53 and Route 107 in Redding, CT. The trail head is just east of the elbow curve in the road where the HUGE CL&P power lines cross. There is room for one car to park off the road at the trail. Be careful of traffic pulling in and out of this spot.
From the sign board, follow the trail to where it forks and the Fifth Connecticut goes straight and the Drummer splits off to the right. There is a letterbox on each of these trails and you can do them in any order. You will be returning to this spot either way.
Gallows Hill: Follow the 5th Connecticut trail (blazed in white) with the stone wall on your right. You will pass a stone wall, hop over a stream and come to another stone wall. Just after this wall, you will see the Ledge Trail on your left blazed in blue. Continue to follow the white blazed trail until it once again intersects with the other end of the (blue) Ledge trail. At this intersection, there is a rock formation. Walk around this mound of rock until you see where there might be a little cave with a stone door in front of it…that’s where what you seek is hiding.
From here, you may return the way you came and continue to look for the drummer. For a pretty hike, continue down the hill on the white trail until it intersects with another blue trail…the Noose. Follow the Noose up to a ledge (pretty winter views) and back around to the junction where the Gallows Hill Box is hidden.
Return to the starting point where the 5th Connecticut and Drummer trails meet (not far from your car).
The Drummer: Take the Drummer trail (white blazes) easterly. You will come to a marshy area which will be wet in the spring…but there are plenty of rocks and wooden bridges to keep your feet dry. The edge of the marsh comes out on a dirt road which continues to be blazed in white to your left. Follow this pretty little road around a few bends but watch carefully to your right for the white blazed markings where the trail leaves the road and enters the woods again. You will climb a short hill which has mountain laurel on both sides. Just at the crest of this hill, on your left is a 2 sister tree. If you start down hill again, you have gone too far. From the 2 sister, take about 6 or 7 steps and at a bearing of about 350 degrees, look for a tree that forms a place to sit and stamp like a horse saddle! The Drummer is under the rock in front of this “saddle tree.”
Retrace your steps back to your car.
Directions: Gallows Hill Road is a twisty steep road between Route 53 and Route 107 in Redding, CT. The trail head is just east of the elbow curve in the road where the HUGE CL&P power lines cross. There is room for one car to park off the road at the trail. Be careful of traffic pulling in and out of this spot.
From the sign board, follow the trail to where it forks and the Fifth Connecticut goes straight and the Drummer splits off to the right. There is a letterbox on each of these trails and you can do them in any order. You will be returning to this spot either way.
Gallows Hill: Follow the 5th Connecticut trail (blazed in white) with the stone wall on your right. You will pass a stone wall, hop over a stream and come to another stone wall. Just after this wall, you will see the Ledge Trail on your left blazed in blue. Continue to follow the white blazed trail until it once again intersects with the other end of the (blue) Ledge trail. At this intersection, there is a rock formation. Walk around this mound of rock until you see where there might be a little cave with a stone door in front of it…that’s where what you seek is hiding.
From here, you may return the way you came and continue to look for the drummer. For a pretty hike, continue down the hill on the white trail until it intersects with another blue trail…the Noose. Follow the Noose up to a ledge (pretty winter views) and back around to the junction where the Gallows Hill Box is hidden.
Return to the starting point where the 5th Connecticut and Drummer trails meet (not far from your car).
The Drummer: Take the Drummer trail (white blazes) easterly. You will come to a marshy area which will be wet in the spring…but there are plenty of rocks and wooden bridges to keep your feet dry. The edge of the marsh comes out on a dirt road which continues to be blazed in white to your left. Follow this pretty little road around a few bends but watch carefully to your right for the white blazed markings where the trail leaves the road and enters the woods again. You will climb a short hill which has mountain laurel on both sides. Just at the crest of this hill, on your left is a 2 sister tree. If you start down hill again, you have gone too far. From the 2 sister, take about 6 or 7 steps and at a bearing of about 350 degrees, look for a tree that forms a place to sit and stamp like a horse saddle! The Drummer is under the rock in front of this “saddle tree.”
Retrace your steps back to your car.