East Harbor Beach LbNA #32861 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 4, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Marblehead |
| County: | Ottawa |
| State: | Ohio |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Blue Heron  |
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| Found by: | VW Family! |
| Last found: | Jul 14, 2011 |
| Status: | aFaaFFFFFFFaFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 4, 2007 |
This letterbox celebrates East Harbor State Park, its history and beach.
Enter East Harbor State Park from Route 269. Follow the signs for the Beach. As you drive the road note the new walking/biking trail in the right lane. You are heading to the old beach area, not the new. With Lake Erie in view, do not turn left toward the swimming beach, but follow the road to the right until it ends in the big parking lot. Park near the trail at the end of the parking lot. Begin walking at the gate with the sign: "Do Not Block the Gate". The trail is wide with two stone tire tracks. The walk is fairly long but the footing is good all the way and would make an easy bike ride to the box location.
As you walk the path you will pass the remains of bathhouses and beach access ramps that were once a part of the beach. Prior to about 1970 this was a huge beach. All that is left of these bathhouses is a concrete pad, benches, picnic tables, and an information signs facing the Lake. Before you get to the first bathhouse you will see some exposed blacktop, evidence that this was all a big parking lot in the olden days. We invite you to read the sign about the lake at the first "bathhouse" but what you are looking for is now at the second "bathhouse". If you want you can follow the sandy path to your right as you read the sign at the first "bathhouse", or you can go back out to the main trail.
When you go up to the info sign at the second bathhouse, look out to the Lake and see Kelley's Island. Note that you are on a large concrete pad. There are trees on the edge of each side of the concrete. Your tree is the one in the same direction that the birds on the info sign are heading. It is a cottonwood tree with two trunks. The box is under the flatest stone on the same side as the Lake.
If you want to learn about efforts being made to return the beach to its pre-1972 status go to http://beachaid-eastharbor.com/
Please look around to see if anyone is watching you uncover and rehide this box. The Planter fixed up the box on June 18, 2009. The old logbook was soaked and worthless but has been replaced by a new box and logbook.
Enter East Harbor State Park from Route 269. Follow the signs for the Beach. As you drive the road note the new walking/biking trail in the right lane. You are heading to the old beach area, not the new. With Lake Erie in view, do not turn left toward the swimming beach, but follow the road to the right until it ends in the big parking lot. Park near the trail at the end of the parking lot. Begin walking at the gate with the sign: "Do Not Block the Gate". The trail is wide with two stone tire tracks. The walk is fairly long but the footing is good all the way and would make an easy bike ride to the box location.
As you walk the path you will pass the remains of bathhouses and beach access ramps that were once a part of the beach. Prior to about 1970 this was a huge beach. All that is left of these bathhouses is a concrete pad, benches, picnic tables, and an information signs facing the Lake. Before you get to the first bathhouse you will see some exposed blacktop, evidence that this was all a big parking lot in the olden days. We invite you to read the sign about the lake at the first "bathhouse" but what you are looking for is now at the second "bathhouse". If you want you can follow the sandy path to your right as you read the sign at the first "bathhouse", or you can go back out to the main trail.
When you go up to the info sign at the second bathhouse, look out to the Lake and see Kelley's Island. Note that you are on a large concrete pad. There are trees on the edge of each side of the concrete. Your tree is the one in the same direction that the birds on the info sign are heading. It is a cottonwood tree with two trunks. The box is under the flatest stone on the same side as the Lake.
If you want to learn about efforts being made to return the beach to its pre-1972 status go to http://beachaid-eastharbor.com/
Please look around to see if anyone is watching you uncover and rehide this box. The Planter fixed up the box on June 18, 2009. The old logbook was soaked and worthless but has been replaced by a new box and logbook.