Happy Squirrel LbNA #26114 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 6, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Franklin |
| County: | Norfolk |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Comet & Luna  |
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| Found by: | grammyandgrumpy |
| Last found: | Aug 7, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 6, 2006 |
Time to walk: 20-25 minutes. Easy terrain.
This is now a letterbox/geocache hybrid. Letterboxers, unless you have an interesting old coin to trade, please leave the wooden treasure box as is.
From Rt. 495, take the King St, Franklin exit. From the South, take a left onto King. From the North, take a left. Go about one mile, and take a hard right onto Washington Street. You will see Coles Tavern at this intersection.
Go ¼ mile, and you will see Ivy Lane on your right. Across from this is a little pull-aside. Park there. Before setting out, right next to your car is an interesting structure. Facing away from the road is a “sheep tunnel”. You can check out either end by climbing down a bit. Farmers guided their animals through these so they would not block the roadways.
Go about 40 feet Westerly, and take the path going at an angle into the woods. Do not follow the Nature Trail sign ahead, go straight.
About 200 feet past that sign, note a dry gully crossing the path. This was not for water, but another way to guide and contain animals. This sheep tunnel is collapsed or at least the ends are. Note how generally flat and straight your trail is. Keep this in mind.
Go straight at a four-way intersection. You will later come upon a brook that seems to run under your trail. It does. From that point, go 37 paces, and you will see two similarly-sized pine trees that are aligned perpendicularly to the trail. A large felled tree may be in the trail ahead. Right after these two pines, go left onto a path of sorts that cuts back towards the brook. Go down it to the brook. You will reach a surprising structure.
Facing the arch, at the furthest point to the left of the stonework, you will find the letterbox behind a golden dot stone. Across the brook, note a large fallen tree, horizontal, 12 feet off the ground. This tree fell the precise moment I placed the box in its spot. It was not windy. Keep your heads up when your hands near the box.
You can retrace your steps back to your car. Now, why the flat, straight trail? Why the massively built stone arch bridge? Well, you’d make it that way for a train. Your trail is an old railbed which went to Boston.
This is now a letterbox/geocache hybrid. Letterboxers, unless you have an interesting old coin to trade, please leave the wooden treasure box as is.
From Rt. 495, take the King St, Franklin exit. From the South, take a left onto King. From the North, take a left. Go about one mile, and take a hard right onto Washington Street. You will see Coles Tavern at this intersection.
Go ¼ mile, and you will see Ivy Lane on your right. Across from this is a little pull-aside. Park there. Before setting out, right next to your car is an interesting structure. Facing away from the road is a “sheep tunnel”. You can check out either end by climbing down a bit. Farmers guided their animals through these so they would not block the roadways.
Go about 40 feet Westerly, and take the path going at an angle into the woods. Do not follow the Nature Trail sign ahead, go straight.
About 200 feet past that sign, note a dry gully crossing the path. This was not for water, but another way to guide and contain animals. This sheep tunnel is collapsed or at least the ends are. Note how generally flat and straight your trail is. Keep this in mind.
Go straight at a four-way intersection. You will later come upon a brook that seems to run under your trail. It does. From that point, go 37 paces, and you will see two similarly-sized pine trees that are aligned perpendicularly to the trail. A large felled tree may be in the trail ahead. Right after these two pines, go left onto a path of sorts that cuts back towards the brook. Go down it to the brook. You will reach a surprising structure.
Facing the arch, at the furthest point to the left of the stonework, you will find the letterbox behind a golden dot stone. Across the brook, note a large fallen tree, horizontal, 12 feet off the ground. This tree fell the precise moment I placed the box in its spot. It was not windy. Keep your heads up when your hands near the box.
You can retrace your steps back to your car. Now, why the flat, straight trail? Why the massively built stone arch bridge? Well, you’d make it that way for a train. Your trail is an old railbed which went to Boston.