Butterfly Travels LbNA #26554
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 7, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Old Saybrook |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 6 |
| Planted by: | Lobsta Lady  |
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| Found by: | Nairon (4) |
| Last found: | Mar 5, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFOFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jul 7, 2006 |
Butterfly Travels
Clark Community Park Trails, Old Saybrook CT
About 4 ½ mile loop.
This series of letterboxes was placed to honor our amazing Connecticut Treasure Butterfly traveling about from here to there & everywhere, in search of the many letterboxes she has found.
Butterfly travels about in so many different ways hunting for letterboxes. She drives around in her van, or is out riding her bike, she is gliding along on cross country skis, or paddling a canoe, or is off hiking trails on snowshoes, & she has even piloted airplanes! If you have ever hiked with her, she is like the Energizer Bunny, she keeps on going, & going, & going, in her hunt for letterboxes.
Directions: Take exit 68 off I-95 in Old Saybrook. Go about two miles South on route one (towards Westbrook). Two lights past the Old Saybrook Senior High, turn right (North) on to School House Road, (which is between two restaurants, Saigon City & Luigi’s). Go just over a mile, and past Willow Brook Farm Road, just as you see the yellow Deer Crossing sign on your Right, slow down, & turn Right into Clark Community Park. You will see a ball field, drive along the field to the parking lot at the far end, by a gate & some picnic tables.
Note: as you are walking the trails, you will notice small wood burnt signs saying “Town Park”, with an arrow pointing you back to your car.
Because this is a Series, the only log book is in the last box.
Clues: Go to the gate & check the map board & hopefully find a park map in the box. After going through the gate turn Left along the picnic area & walk to the stone shelter near the water. Go straight on the Red trail a very short ways, & take your first Left. Follow that to a 4 way junction, with a broken brick chimney straight ahead. Turn on to the Right trail and walk down to the cut fallen tree on your Left. Look in the direction the fallen tree points, to see beyond, slightly to the right, a tree hugging a rock, about 17 steps from the trail. Look in the direction the tree root points from the rock, & see two low rocks about 3-4 feet away. Under the left rock is where you will find your first letterbox Butterfly Drives.
Return to the stone shelter & walk back towards the gate you came in. Go beyond the end of the lake & go down the trail to your right, & cross over a short wooden bridge with side rails.
Cross over to a some times wet rocky intersection, & take the Blue trail to the Right. Just before you cross over a bridge, look Right to a big two sister dark birch tree, just before a low stone wall. Look in the V of the two sister tree to find Butterfy Canoes. Cross over the bridge & go up hill. After you get on top of the hill, as you start down again, look to the Right along a line of rocks to see a lone medium size boulder about 50 feet in the woods. At the NE side, down under hides the Butterfly Snowshoes letterbox. A Jay called me to this spot, & I found it to be a pleasant area.
Continue on the Blue trail, cross over the Red & come to the Yellow trail. Turn Right on Yellow, & cross over a couple of short bridges, & after the longer "Bridge Out" boardwalk bridge, look around to see some cut logs, and were the trail splits around a shag bark hickory tree in the trail. You will then see rocks on both sides of the trail. At the end of the rocky section, look to the Right to see twin rotten tree stumps. Go beyond these stumps to a moss saddle on a "Horse" tree, see a tree hugging rock. Look behind the tree hugging rock, & under some logs to find the Butterfly Bikes letterbox.
Continue on the Yellow which suddenly turns to Blue, & watch out you do not go on the unmarked trail going left. Continue on the Blue until it splits in opposite directions. Take the Left Blue trail, to make a clockwise loop. You will go in back of a number of houses for a long while, & then come to a map board, were the red trail comes in. Go Left staying on the Blue trail, & cross a rocky old stream bed & through a stone wall. Go Right up hill on the area marked "upper ledges" on the map, ignoring the unmarked trail on your left. As you go along the top of the ledges you will see on both sides of the trail Cedar trees, when the Cedars are very close to the trail, look for the next blaze on an 8 inch Oak tree. From there look about 20 degrees to about a thigh high flat rock, with a pointy triangular rock just beyond it. Look on the West side of the flat rock, (across from a small moss covered rock), for the Butterfly Cross Country Ski's letterbox.
Continue on the Blue, coming to a stone wall. Here the trail drops steeply, so use caution if it is wet or icy. It's a short drop, & as it levels out notice some interesting "Pancake" rocks to your Right, just before the Blue/Red trail.
Take the Blue/Red trail to your Left, and soon notice a stone wall on your Left. At the end of the stonewall, go through it, & go Left 8-9 steps to a small leaning rock low on the wall. Behind the small leaning rock is the Butterfly Flies letterbox.
From here you can continue to the Blue trail & drop down to check out the Bear’s Den Loop, or take the Blue trail past the map board & along the lower ledges. Ignore the yellow trail on your left & the red trail on your right, staying on Blue. When you get back to the road like Yellow, turn Left on Yellow all the way back to the some times wet rocky intersection, & cross the new wood bridge to the gate & your car.
Clark Community Park Trails, Old Saybrook CT
About 4 ½ mile loop.
This series of letterboxes was placed to honor our amazing Connecticut Treasure Butterfly traveling about from here to there & everywhere, in search of the many letterboxes she has found.
Butterfly travels about in so many different ways hunting for letterboxes. She drives around in her van, or is out riding her bike, she is gliding along on cross country skis, or paddling a canoe, or is off hiking trails on snowshoes, & she has even piloted airplanes! If you have ever hiked with her, she is like the Energizer Bunny, she keeps on going, & going, & going, in her hunt for letterboxes.
Directions: Take exit 68 off I-95 in Old Saybrook. Go about two miles South on route one (towards Westbrook). Two lights past the Old Saybrook Senior High, turn right (North) on to School House Road, (which is between two restaurants, Saigon City & Luigi’s). Go just over a mile, and past Willow Brook Farm Road, just as you see the yellow Deer Crossing sign on your Right, slow down, & turn Right into Clark Community Park. You will see a ball field, drive along the field to the parking lot at the far end, by a gate & some picnic tables.
Note: as you are walking the trails, you will notice small wood burnt signs saying “Town Park”, with an arrow pointing you back to your car.
Because this is a Series, the only log book is in the last box.
Clues: Go to the gate & check the map board & hopefully find a park map in the box. After going through the gate turn Left along the picnic area & walk to the stone shelter near the water. Go straight on the Red trail a very short ways, & take your first Left. Follow that to a 4 way junction, with a broken brick chimney straight ahead. Turn on to the Right trail and walk down to the cut fallen tree on your Left. Look in the direction the fallen tree points, to see beyond, slightly to the right, a tree hugging a rock, about 17 steps from the trail. Look in the direction the tree root points from the rock, & see two low rocks about 3-4 feet away. Under the left rock is where you will find your first letterbox Butterfly Drives.
Return to the stone shelter & walk back towards the gate you came in. Go beyond the end of the lake & go down the trail to your right, & cross over a short wooden bridge with side rails.
Cross over to a some times wet rocky intersection, & take the Blue trail to the Right. Just before you cross over a bridge, look Right to a big two sister dark birch tree, just before a low stone wall. Look in the V of the two sister tree to find Butterfy Canoes. Cross over the bridge & go up hill. After you get on top of the hill, as you start down again, look to the Right along a line of rocks to see a lone medium size boulder about 50 feet in the woods. At the NE side, down under hides the Butterfly Snowshoes letterbox. A Jay called me to this spot, & I found it to be a pleasant area.
Continue on the Blue trail, cross over the Red & come to the Yellow trail. Turn Right on Yellow, & cross over a couple of short bridges, & after the longer "Bridge Out" boardwalk bridge, look around to see some cut logs, and were the trail splits around a shag bark hickory tree in the trail. You will then see rocks on both sides of the trail. At the end of the rocky section, look to the Right to see twin rotten tree stumps. Go beyond these stumps to a moss saddle on a "Horse" tree, see a tree hugging rock. Look behind the tree hugging rock, & under some logs to find the Butterfly Bikes letterbox.
Continue on the Yellow which suddenly turns to Blue, & watch out you do not go on the unmarked trail going left. Continue on the Blue until it splits in opposite directions. Take the Left Blue trail, to make a clockwise loop. You will go in back of a number of houses for a long while, & then come to a map board, were the red trail comes in. Go Left staying on the Blue trail, & cross a rocky old stream bed & through a stone wall. Go Right up hill on the area marked "upper ledges" on the map, ignoring the unmarked trail on your left. As you go along the top of the ledges you will see on both sides of the trail Cedar trees, when the Cedars are very close to the trail, look for the next blaze on an 8 inch Oak tree. From there look about 20 degrees to about a thigh high flat rock, with a pointy triangular rock just beyond it. Look on the West side of the flat rock, (across from a small moss covered rock), for the Butterfly Cross Country Ski's letterbox.
Continue on the Blue, coming to a stone wall. Here the trail drops steeply, so use caution if it is wet or icy. It's a short drop, & as it levels out notice some interesting "Pancake" rocks to your Right, just before the Blue/Red trail.
Take the Blue/Red trail to your Left, and soon notice a stone wall on your Left. At the end of the stonewall, go through it, & go Left 8-9 steps to a small leaning rock low on the wall. Behind the small leaning rock is the Butterfly Flies letterbox.
From here you can continue to the Blue trail & drop down to check out the Bear’s Den Loop, or take the Blue trail past the map board & along the lower ledges. Ignore the yellow trail on your left & the red trail on your right, staying on Blue. When you get back to the road like Yellow, turn Left on Yellow all the way back to the some times wet rocky intersection, & cross the new wood bridge to the gate & your car.