Eagle's Bluff LbNA #28115 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 2, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Mound City |
| County: | Holt |
| State: | Missouri |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | WyldBlueberries  |
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| Found by: | Not yet found! |
| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jan 2, 2007 |
This box is placed beside the visitor’s center at the Squaw Crk wildlife refuge. This is a great place for a day trip, and if you come at the right time in the winter, you’ll see plenty of Bald Eagles along with all the snow geese and other birds. The signs say it’s a good spot for morel mushroom picking, too.
Compass Required: No
Hike required: about a half mile of strenuous climbing (you’ll have to leave the strollers behind)
Directions to trailhead:
The refuge is located five miles south of Mound City, MO, and 30 miles north of St. Joseph, MO, just off of Interstate 29. Take exit 79, and drive 3 miles west on highway 159.
Directions to Box:
- Park at the visitor’s center and follow directions to the Callow Memorial Hiking Trail, which is a short asphalt trail.
- Before you get to the end of the asphalt, take the mulched path on your left. This trail will go a short ways then turn sharply to the left and up a steep hill.
- Walk up the hill. At the top, turn to your left and walk up the path. Follow the path all the way to the top using the wooden steps and handrails. (This is pretty tricky on a muddy day!) At the top there is a wooden bench where you can rest temporarily.
- Follow the trail along the tops of the ridges. They lead to some beautiful overlooks of the refuge. Enjoy the view!
- Keep going along the ridges and you will reach a stone shelter.
- After you reach the shelter, start down the stone steps. A short way down, you will see a wooden bench on your left in front of a stone wall. Rest here.
- The box is placed under a rock on the back side of the wall, over your left shoulder as you are seated on the bench.
- After stamping in, you can continue on this trail, which is the Loess Bluff Trail created in the 1930s by the CCC. You will exit the trail beside the visitor’s center.
(Technically you could save yourself some climbing by starting out on the Loess Bluff Trail beside the visitor’s center – but what fun would that be?)
Compass Required: No
Hike required: about a half mile of strenuous climbing (you’ll have to leave the strollers behind)
Directions to trailhead:
The refuge is located five miles south of Mound City, MO, and 30 miles north of St. Joseph, MO, just off of Interstate 29. Take exit 79, and drive 3 miles west on highway 159.
Directions to Box:
- Park at the visitor’s center and follow directions to the Callow Memorial Hiking Trail, which is a short asphalt trail.
- Before you get to the end of the asphalt, take the mulched path on your left. This trail will go a short ways then turn sharply to the left and up a steep hill.
- Walk up the hill. At the top, turn to your left and walk up the path. Follow the path all the way to the top using the wooden steps and handrails. (This is pretty tricky on a muddy day!) At the top there is a wooden bench where you can rest temporarily.
- Follow the trail along the tops of the ridges. They lead to some beautiful overlooks of the refuge. Enjoy the view!
- Keep going along the ridges and you will reach a stone shelter.
- After you reach the shelter, start down the stone steps. A short way down, you will see a wooden bench on your left in front of a stone wall. Rest here.
- The box is placed under a rock on the back side of the wall, over your left shoulder as you are seated on the bench.
- After stamping in, you can continue on this trail, which is the Loess Bluff Trail created in the 1930s by the CCC. You will exit the trail beside the visitor’s center.
(Technically you could save yourself some climbing by starting out on the Loess Bluff Trail beside the visitor’s center – but what fun would that be?)