The Bell Property LbNA #26212 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 9, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Tyngsborough |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Planted by: | P, Be & J  |
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| Found by: | Mim |
| Last found: | Aug 31, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Oct 9, 2006 |
***BOX ARCHIVED... I was notified that 2 of the 3 boxes are missing. I'll put it back online if I'm able to get there and replace the missing boxes. Thanks for visiting.
************************************************************The Bell Property - Town of Tyngsborough Conservation Land - is a 16-acre wooded parcel of land with a trail about a mile long. There are stone walls and two vernal pools for turtles, reptiles and birds. In June, you may see pink lady slippers in bloom. Along with the usual outdoor wildlife of chipmunks, snakes and birds, we’ve been lucky to find hawk feathers and a beaver skull on our walks.
********************************************************** PLEASE NOTE: IN LATE MAY, 2007, WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT THE 2ND BOX IS MISSING. WE WILL GET THERE SOON TO REPLACE. WILL UPDATE THIS SITE ONCE WE DO. (It's still a nice walk in the meantime, with the first and last boxes in place.)
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This is a 3-stamp letterbox adventure. Stamps are handmade (the theme: The food chain). The book is in the final box. Please bring your own stamp pad.
The terrain is easy to moderate; not stroller accessible, but child friendly; bring the kids and leashed dog; estimated time with kids: 40 minutes, with wide variations for pace and interests found along the trail (we don’t rush).
We highly recommend bug spray for both mosquitoes and ticks, and check yourself and hiking companions for hitchhiking ticks that you don't want to bring home!
The trailhead is located across from the Tyngsborough Town Hall and Library, 25 Bryants Lane. (From the Tyngsborough Bridge, go north on 3A/Middlesex Road, first left onto Bryants Lane. The Bell Property is on the right; Town Hall and Library on the left.) Parking is allowed at Town Hall. Walk back down the Town Hall entry road, staying on the sidewalk on the right. At Bryant’s Lane, follow the sidewalk to the right a short distance and cross the street to enter the trail at the sign.
Follow the trail marked by white, circular signs. A short way in, you’ll come to a part of the trail with a stone wall off through the woods on your right. Walk up a small hill, and just after the crest, look past the stone wall to see the metal frames of old mink cages. The adjacent parcel of land used to house a mink farm, and if you’re lucky, you may see a mink on your walk (more likely in the early morning or late afternoon)!
Continue along the trail as it heads left. You’ll come to a three-forked oak tree at the top of a small incline. Stop. Walk to the back of the tree, and look through the fork created with the dead branch on the left and the two live forks on the right. Do you see a pine tree directly across the trail from the oak? The first letterbox is hidden at the back base of the pine trunk.
Continue straight along the trail past another couple trail markers. When you come to what looks like a fork in the trail, stay right (the markers are harder to see here). The trail will climb a small, steep hill. At the top of the hill there is a bench on the left. Past the bench, the trail heads downhill and continues along. You will come to an intersection with a “trial” sign and arrow pointing you left. Continue past five giant trees on your right, and turn left again at another “trail” and arrow sign.
Go 35 – 40 paces along the trail to the giant, split rock. Stop to climb and play! After you’ve explored in and around the rock, take a minute to sit and rest on the flat rock directly across the trail from the giant rock. As you sit on the flat rock facing the giant rock, turn to the back right corner of the rock you’re sitting on, and buried under that corner is the second letterbox. You’re now at the halfway mark of the trail.
Continuing along the trail to the right after the rock, you’ll start to climb uphill and the trail turns slightly to the right. Go straight past the three-forked maple tree with a trail marker on it You’ll crest the hill and the trail will bear a bit left. A short way up the trail, the terrain turns rocky and the path turns to the right. Follow along the edge of the rise (watch your little ones along this stretch), then down and around to another bench. Sit, take a minute to enjoy the great outdoors. As you are sitting on the bench, look to the back, left leg of the bench. Follow the fallen branch off the leg three paces back to a pile of branches and leaves directly behind the center of the bench. Hidden therein is the third and final box.
Continue following the path across a wooden bridge and back out onto Bryants Lane. Take a left back to the Town Hall parking lot.
Hope you had fun! Let us know how we did.
The Mayflower Patriots
(E, J, A & B)
************************************************************The Bell Property - Town of Tyngsborough Conservation Land - is a 16-acre wooded parcel of land with a trail about a mile long. There are stone walls and two vernal pools for turtles, reptiles and birds. In June, you may see pink lady slippers in bloom. Along with the usual outdoor wildlife of chipmunks, snakes and birds, we’ve been lucky to find hawk feathers and a beaver skull on our walks.
********************************************************** PLEASE NOTE: IN LATE MAY, 2007, WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT THE 2ND BOX IS MISSING. WE WILL GET THERE SOON TO REPLACE. WILL UPDATE THIS SITE ONCE WE DO. (It's still a nice walk in the meantime, with the first and last boxes in place.)
***********************************************************
This is a 3-stamp letterbox adventure. Stamps are handmade (the theme: The food chain). The book is in the final box. Please bring your own stamp pad.
The terrain is easy to moderate; not stroller accessible, but child friendly; bring the kids and leashed dog; estimated time with kids: 40 minutes, with wide variations for pace and interests found along the trail (we don’t rush).
We highly recommend bug spray for both mosquitoes and ticks, and check yourself and hiking companions for hitchhiking ticks that you don't want to bring home!
The trailhead is located across from the Tyngsborough Town Hall and Library, 25 Bryants Lane. (From the Tyngsborough Bridge, go north on 3A/Middlesex Road, first left onto Bryants Lane. The Bell Property is on the right; Town Hall and Library on the left.) Parking is allowed at Town Hall. Walk back down the Town Hall entry road, staying on the sidewalk on the right. At Bryant’s Lane, follow the sidewalk to the right a short distance and cross the street to enter the trail at the sign.
Follow the trail marked by white, circular signs. A short way in, you’ll come to a part of the trail with a stone wall off through the woods on your right. Walk up a small hill, and just after the crest, look past the stone wall to see the metal frames of old mink cages. The adjacent parcel of land used to house a mink farm, and if you’re lucky, you may see a mink on your walk (more likely in the early morning or late afternoon)!
Continue along the trail as it heads left. You’ll come to a three-forked oak tree at the top of a small incline. Stop. Walk to the back of the tree, and look through the fork created with the dead branch on the left and the two live forks on the right. Do you see a pine tree directly across the trail from the oak? The first letterbox is hidden at the back base of the pine trunk.
Continue straight along the trail past another couple trail markers. When you come to what looks like a fork in the trail, stay right (the markers are harder to see here). The trail will climb a small, steep hill. At the top of the hill there is a bench on the left. Past the bench, the trail heads downhill and continues along. You will come to an intersection with a “trial” sign and arrow pointing you left. Continue past five giant trees on your right, and turn left again at another “trail” and arrow sign.
Go 35 – 40 paces along the trail to the giant, split rock. Stop to climb and play! After you’ve explored in and around the rock, take a minute to sit and rest on the flat rock directly across the trail from the giant rock. As you sit on the flat rock facing the giant rock, turn to the back right corner of the rock you’re sitting on, and buried under that corner is the second letterbox. You’re now at the halfway mark of the trail.
Continuing along the trail to the right after the rock, you’ll start to climb uphill and the trail turns slightly to the right. Go straight past the three-forked maple tree with a trail marker on it You’ll crest the hill and the trail will bear a bit left. A short way up the trail, the terrain turns rocky and the path turns to the right. Follow along the edge of the rise (watch your little ones along this stretch), then down and around to another bench. Sit, take a minute to enjoy the great outdoors. As you are sitting on the bench, look to the back, left leg of the bench. Follow the fallen branch off the leg three paces back to a pile of branches and leaves directly behind the center of the bench. Hidden therein is the third and final box.
Continue following the path across a wooden bridge and back out onto Bryants Lane. Take a left back to the Town Hall parking lot.
Hope you had fun! Let us know how we did.
The Mayflower Patriots
(E, J, A & B)