Alice in Orleans LbNA #23648
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 10, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Orleans |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 5 |
| Planted by: | ArchimedesScrew  |
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| Found by: | Rock Island (3) |
| Last found: | Feb 7, 2019 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 10, 2006 |
Please bring your own stamp pad (black will work for all) and pen. Also, please re-seal all the bags and make sure the boxes are well hidden when you leave.
These letterboxes have been planted in the Orleans Watershed. This area is accessible for recreational walking ONLY. Vehicles are NOT allowed. The “no trespassing” signs apply to vehicles, not hikers. The gates are locked at 5 PM. It should take approximately 1 ½ hours. Dogs are welcome.
Driving Directions:
From Route 6, take Exit 11 (Route 137). Head left toward Harwich/Chatham. Take an almost immediate left onto Pleasant Bay Road. Follow this road for 1.1 miles until you reach the intersection at Route 39 (Orleans Road). Take a left on 39 and drive for about 2.5 miles through Brewster and into Orleans continuing on as the road merges with Route 28 (South Orleans Road) in South Orleans. Travel about .4 miles after the road becomes 28. The entrance to the Orleans Watershed is on the left side of the road almost directly across from Namequoit Road which you will see to your right. The entrance has parking for a few cars near the road. It is not marked by a sign but you will see an obvious chain-link gate set in a bit from the road. Park in the area near the road. Do not drive through the gate.
Clues:
Walk down the road until it branches into a paved and unpaved fork. Follow the paved road on the right between 2 buildings. Continue on this road and as you approach the fence at the end, look for a fire hydrant on the left. Walk up the path by the hydrant until you reach a wide pine to the right. Turn to look at the tree and walk past it for seventeen steps to 2 side-by-side pines. The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party is hidden in between the two beneath a large walking stick.
Return down the path and paved road and take a right down the unpaved path when you get back to the road that led into the watershed. After walking past 2 trails on the left, go up hill and on the left, before the road bends look for 2 broken trees forming triangles with the ground. Where these 2 trees meet, you will find Pool of Tears under a rock.
Go back to the road and continue walking up and around, across a flat portion and back down, until on the left you find an open area guarded within by a tall horned tree trunk. Walk ahead to the fallen tree and look for another a short distance on the right. Go straight ahead with the rotting end to your right. White Rabbit hides under the left-most of the camel humps ahead.
Go back out to the road and turn back. Look for a road of telephone poles on the right directly after a hydrant. Directly across from the last pole before the fence, look for several pieces of dead wood. There is one with a straggly end resting on another. You will find The Gryphon behind the one missing its bark under a small rock.
Go back to the original path and turn right. Take the next path on the right. Walk along until you spot a small “meadow” behind a fallen tree on the left. A spidery dead tree guards the center. The limb on the right that is about shoulder height points to where Telling a Tale is hidden. Walk 17 steps in that direction and look under a rotting log.
Return to the original road and continue back to where you parked.
These letterboxes have been planted in the Orleans Watershed. This area is accessible for recreational walking ONLY. Vehicles are NOT allowed. The “no trespassing” signs apply to vehicles, not hikers. The gates are locked at 5 PM. It should take approximately 1 ½ hours. Dogs are welcome.
Driving Directions:
From Route 6, take Exit 11 (Route 137). Head left toward Harwich/Chatham. Take an almost immediate left onto Pleasant Bay Road. Follow this road for 1.1 miles until you reach the intersection at Route 39 (Orleans Road). Take a left on 39 and drive for about 2.5 miles through Brewster and into Orleans continuing on as the road merges with Route 28 (South Orleans Road) in South Orleans. Travel about .4 miles after the road becomes 28. The entrance to the Orleans Watershed is on the left side of the road almost directly across from Namequoit Road which you will see to your right. The entrance has parking for a few cars near the road. It is not marked by a sign but you will see an obvious chain-link gate set in a bit from the road. Park in the area near the road. Do not drive through the gate.
Clues:
Walk down the road until it branches into a paved and unpaved fork. Follow the paved road on the right between 2 buildings. Continue on this road and as you approach the fence at the end, look for a fire hydrant on the left. Walk up the path by the hydrant until you reach a wide pine to the right. Turn to look at the tree and walk past it for seventeen steps to 2 side-by-side pines. The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party is hidden in between the two beneath a large walking stick.
Return down the path and paved road and take a right down the unpaved path when you get back to the road that led into the watershed. After walking past 2 trails on the left, go up hill and on the left, before the road bends look for 2 broken trees forming triangles with the ground. Where these 2 trees meet, you will find Pool of Tears under a rock.
Go back to the road and continue walking up and around, across a flat portion and back down, until on the left you find an open area guarded within by a tall horned tree trunk. Walk ahead to the fallen tree and look for another a short distance on the right. Go straight ahead with the rotting end to your right. White Rabbit hides under the left-most of the camel humps ahead.
Go back out to the road and turn back. Look for a road of telephone poles on the right directly after a hydrant. Directly across from the last pole before the fence, look for several pieces of dead wood. There is one with a straggly end resting on another. You will find The Gryphon behind the one missing its bark under a small rock.
Go back to the original path and turn right. Take the next path on the right. Walk along until you spot a small “meadow” behind a fallen tree on the left. A spidery dead tree guards the center. The limb on the right that is about shoulder height points to where Telling a Tale is hidden. Walk 17 steps in that direction and look under a rotting log.
Return to the original road and continue back to where you parked.