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Shakespeare Mystery LbNA #22684 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 21, 2006
Location:
City:Bethel Park
County:Allegheny
State:Pennsylvania
Boxes:5
Found by: busybees (4)
Last found:Aug 26, 2006
Status:FF
Last edited:Jan 21, 2006

This series of 5 letterboxes is located in South Park in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Enter via the NW entrance, where South Park Road turns into Baptist Road and intersects with Route 88 (click here for a map). You will turn onto Corrigan Drive, and then make a left onto Hundred Acre Drive. All but one of the letterboxes are found on this road.

This is best done on a weekday or in the off-season, as the park can be quite crowded on weekends and it will be harder to be discrete about finding and re-hiding the boxes.

This box has a bonus. Each box includes clues to figure out the following quote from one of Shakespeare's plays:

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Box #1
Enter via the Route 88 entrance, and after passing the ice skating rink make a left onto “100 Acre Drive.” You will pass a barn on your left, continue driving up the hill until you come to the “Diana” picnic pavilion. Park here. At the back of the lot are two trees that are “V” shaped. The box is hidden behind the left tree.

Box #2
Continue driving on 100 Acre Drive until you come to the “Georgia” picnic pavilion. Park here (you will have to park at the top and walk in, as only authorized vehicles are allowed to drive in). Make your way to the back, left most post in the pavilion, then walk straight up the hill (with the road and your car behind you). At the edge of the woods you will find a rotted stump. The box is inside buried inside the stump.

Box #3
Continue driving on 100 Acre Drive until you come to the “Valley Heights” picnic pavilion. Turn in here. Park in the second parking lot (a small one, on the left after you pass the first pavilion). With the road you just drove up on behind you, to the left of the parking lot you will see a clump of trees and brush. Walk behind this clump of trees and you will find a pile of logs. Follow the two logs that are together, and right after these logs cross over another log you will find the letterbox underneath.

Box #4
Continue down this one-way road and make a left to get back onto 100 Acre Drive. Follow it until you come to an old barn on the right which says “Boxing Gym” on it. Park in the parking lot in front of the barn, and walk to the left side of the barn. In front of the chimney you will find the letterbox.

Box #5
Continue following 100 Acre Drive. At the top of the hill make a right (towards Spreading Oak). At the stop sign make another right. Turn into “East Rise Slope,” and park at the 2nd pavilion. To your left are two large dead trees. The letterbox is hidden under bark to the right of the closest tree (the “V” shaped one).